Marion’s Birthday

Blue eyed challenger,
uncompromising
in compromise, your
consoling arm and open
hands have reached
out for us, to comfort
or applaud, these many years.
We are extras in your long
loved drama,
and the best directors make
each spear carrier
love his work, and
all that work around him.
The curtain lifts again
today, the cast
assembles. Your
precious solemn gaze
will make us all as always
joy in what we are,
in being at our best.