You were just seen taking sides with barroom swagger By summer boardwalk, smiling At the play party, surrounded, enraptured Wearing white, becoming devout, speaking a new tongue You were life all over just days ago we saw you Training for the race, holding court at the Pagan potluck, counting found change, you were a mentor, a nurturer, a father/mother/child/distant cousin, You were the international stage. Now, we see you no longer. Sometimes, the shock of ending. Always. Th