MAG #183: PASSING PLACE

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Passing Place -- steven kelly

THE WHITE-COLD MILE

Oh, the cold, freezing chill,

new sign on weathered post,

snow pockets white on hill,

I'm ready for the roast...

One remaining expectation

while shivering, shuddering,

thinking, riding on this, the

final day-- my cremation.

Here is the place

of lasting passing--

from earth to space

Riding past "Passing Place"

traveling through blasting

northern Decembrrrr air,

under helmet, frozen hair!

Accompanying thoughts of 

a huge pyre, I "see" my 

laughing self happily sitting 

there in splendid, raging fire.

--steveroni

"The Cremation of Sam McGee",
by Robert W Service

influenced this short rhyme.
Identifying thoroughly with the 

poem's protagonist, I continue 

loving to be warm.