This poem is in memory of a beautiful soul who graced the earth which such a glowing presence, who strived so passionately to understand what alive felt and meant that he sadly passed on to the next life too soon. He changed all of our lives, he always asked "what is your reason to wake up in the morning...." before anything else, he loved us all.
I hope you can come to also ask yourself this, as being alive is a beautiful reason in itself.
Sunrise David
Part One:
wild eyed
he had been up climbing cranes
to watch the sunrise
oblivious to
his body
intoxicated by his soul
he wore his construction gear
constructing his
reality with his adept
individuality
that rung into my
heart
the way his rush
rung into his
eardrums
I thought
when he sat there in grassy kensington
barefoot
writing me a mind map
for his meaning of aliveness
that it needn't
be
communicated
by needles, spikes and sniffs
like the rest of us
I thought
maybe the way his left foot hung
over all divine
all over his thigh
like buddha
that he didnt want
needles, spikes and sniffs
like the rest of us
but I guess even the divine
are
still searching
theres no spiritual classist
separation in the desperation
to be alive enough
but oh how david tried
and
a week ago he died
heroin heroin
wasn't his sick heroine
she was his potential
confined in sharp metal
a vein rushing rental
to another dimension
of alive