Your words magnify sounds
of soft and gentle vibrations,
reminders of past years,
calm seas and candle flames
whispering sweet citations.

Within you lives personifications
of kindness, caring and
unspoken humility —
what you are is a key
to lost treasures
of which an adequate description
is beyond all human ability.

You symbolize creation
at its very best —
a loving hand always extended;
your torch glows
not for recognition
but for compassion for others —
surely you are what the creator of man
must have intended.