For once, sunrise was long drawn,
parting began prior to dawn,
pierced heart, the scene forlorn
awakening to find you were long gone,
to know future songs are now forgone,
holes in communities bereft of one last song.
We saw your ability to combine
times of happiness and woe in ways sublime,
and now far too soon came your time.
Reddish hues of that final morning
prelude to forbidden mourning,
though we grate our teeth and eyes sweat,
pain now firmed in light of ‘Cadet Cadet’.
Masterful ways in which you compile
rhetoric boundless, free to freestyle
with an uncanny type guile
and infectious smile.
The plinth rose, absent of trend
destined to be the best from ends
who could by choice transcend
key-selling mandem able to ascend
with nods toward the u̶n̶d̶e̶rrated legend.
The scene shall never forget
words that forever ring true in ‘Cadet Cadet’.
We move, scars the only drawback,
pearly whites needn’t tolerate plaque
to accumulate on your legacy
and shroud the memory,
yes, the memory-
keep that same energy.
Though time’s wingèd chariot
drifts to the distance, we cannot
derive close of play at sunset,
thus, we eternally chant ‘Cadet Cadet’.
