Ode to Ben

Blonde Ben,
Your picture says it all.
Your smile would brighten a room.
Your thoughfulness would melt any heart.

What was it that haunted to you?
What were you hiding beneath the liqour encased conversations?
Who left you alone with that smile?

Life is unforgiving and it left you.
I wonder how your after-death experience is treating you?
Did you wake up alone with a hangover?
Were you shocked into the depths of darkness?

Your void is felt. You were an important piece of this puzzle.
What will your legacy be?
What have you left for us to learn?

What you have left for us to remember
is a person with a heart of gold, a body of hugs,
a face with smiles and kind eyes,
a way of life that touched people enough
to always remember what good there was in this this world.

Rest in Peace, good buddy. You are deeply missed already.