Me and Kevin, 1999

Kevin en ik, 1999

Kevin werd geboren op 1 juni 1955 and stierf op 12 maart 2006. Een groot verlies voor moeder aarde en voor iedereen die van hem hield. Het leven zal nooit meer zijn wat het voorheen was. Een boom is ook niet zoals voorheen nadat die een tak verliest.


Kevin was born on June 1st 1955 and died on March 12th 2006. The earth lost a friend and so did everyone who loved him. Life will never be the same again just like a tree isn't the same when it loses a branch.

Ballad for Kevin

A citadel was painted on
the canvas of your days-
I'm humbled by its magnitude,
the beauty of your ways.

Life's walls were draped with evergreen
and morning glory vines;
each fluent shape of stone would tell
how love prevents decline.

The threshold, worn by weight of steps,
held footprints large and small-
as every friend in town would know,
you saved a smile for all.

The garden was your living room,
the essence of your pride-
your Harley and your fire pit
were standing side by side.

The canvas folded much too soon-
dear friend, the paint still flows,
depicting paths now leading to
where sun and moon repose.

Our Shepherd offers providence,
I'll see each morning climb,
revealing gifts you've strewn about
in every niche of time.

Some day, the touch of sun on bark,
the peace of rippled skies,
will feel like nature's arnica
on gently said goodbyes.

In loving memory of Kevin McDermott

By Chris W, March 12th, 2006


Eternity's Refrain

How short were journey's limericks
when versified in time-
demise became a touch of ink,
a never finished rhyme.

I reminisce about a year
as silence lies entwined
with errant tears that slip between
your lyrics in my mind.

Although we can't claim copyrights
on excerpts of our stride,
life's pathways are perennial-
I've seen your prints and cried.

Acceptance is a twilit poem
for bliss of evening spills
on stanzas charged with undertones
that say I miss you still.

When writings feel like chalk on stone,
too weak to fight the rain,
I pause and read your friendship in
eternity's refrain.

By Chris W March 12th 2007