Here I am, in the death column
Around me strangers smiling and solemn
We sit together alphabetical
Not a murmur about protocol
Kind helper Bessie scored a smile from God
Brave Officer Brown got a friendly nod
But hardly a glance for shark-in-a-suit
Nor for the fancy, the glam or the cute!
All simply just human
Now stripped to the soul
Praying one prayer -
'Let me be on that Roll!'
(c) Jean Lowrie-Chin
6 January 2013
