Eulogy for Samori
If we put all the love
in all the world,
in all its creatures,
in all its children,
and its grown ups,
and all its animals,
birds, fish, dolphins, whales, puppies,
and all the rest of nature
including its trees
and its flowers,
and added to that
the love of
the whole universe including
whoever and whatever
is out there,
like the spirits,
the music,
the magic,
that we cannot see,
but sometimes feel,
and if we then took
that love potion
and included the love
of the small crowd of folks who knew you
and cared for you
on so deep a level.
If we took all that
love energy and
condensed it
into a fuel,
to power your journey
into the heavens,
If then, finally
we all took
one precious moment,
to breathe deeply,
and remember the Samori that so many of us knew in our own unique way
If we took that moment
all together
right now
we would know,
without the shadow,
of a doubt,
how with you, Samori
we are,
now,
and for eternity.