The Best Last Day

I am glad I woke to see your sun rise.

Flowers sent their scent

through my spring window screen.

I inhaled,

deeply, like a billow,

on my final day,

each breath strong:

Recalling I considered

this day

years ago

in my youth,

not afraid then,

not afraid now,

and I sang a song

from 1975,

“Someone saved my life tonight,

Sugar Bear,”

and I smiled

a smile no one present

at my be…