Elegy to Reagan

Goodbye to a legacy
I never really got to know.
And farewell to a legend
I never got to see.

Only a child when
his name graced these states.
Didn't catch much news then,
too busy traveling the world.

And I was only six year old
when he left the office of America.
Now 14 years later, I'm twenty
as he leaves America behind.

His face was familiar-
something everybody knew.
His pain became his staple;
something anyone could see.

And his name meant something great-
not only to those who knew him.
His time spent in office
changed this country for the better.

But now that's all over
as we lay him to his rest.
Now, it's all finished
as America says farewell.

Tears in Lady Liberty's eyes
as the casket rolls away.
Hearts all across the greatland
feel an inckling of that pain.

He isn't coming back to us;
he can't help us remember our dream.
But he's gone on on to a better place
where one day again, we'll meet.

Farewell dear friend,
that America can't be proud enought to know.
Farewell dearest President
There is no doubt you will be missed.

Farewell President Ronald Reagan,
You will not be forgotten.

-RLL