To Carol C. and all of the many other friends of my late husband LR Mole.....

Just spent a good while scrolling through many of LR's postings (thanks to your kind messages after his passing) - and I want to share this poem written by Bob (aka LR Mole) during the fall prior to his death.
Truth be told - he had had a number of close calls w death - and I believe he knew his time was soon to come - though he chose not talk about it, nor did he ever want to talk much about his own problems. He was a man who lived for connecting and communicating with others - through music, through teaching, through voice, and as you all know - through writing.

Here is the last poem he ever wrote:

Latter Days of Peter Pan

Diversion from mourning those who've gone away
Used to preoccupy him.
Lost boys not really lost, aging Wendies,
Sprites who needed help from crowds to be saved,

Pirates sad in defeat, devoured by crocodiles and time.
But
Ill-temper becomes tedious. And memory wears out.

Beyond the second star is waiting and an effort at calm

On an island in a sea,
In an ocean of stars,

Flying,

Still.

RF Dalton 9-6-01
(typed exactly as written by LR Mole)
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So... a present to all of you who loved Bob (LR) - as I certainly did.

Have a great life and enjoy the music!

With love,
Betsy (wife - or really, widow - to LR Mole)