An Ode To Senator Ted Kennedy

Posted on | August 28, 2009 | No Comments

By: Rich Bergeron

Teddy K. has gone away
To the senate in the sky to play.
A stalwart man for human rights,
Haunted on many sleepless nights
By ghosts and high expectations.
He got an Irish Wake of recitations.

No more in the prime of privileged life,
No more the lion’s roar in the limelight.
No more talk of Arthur’s Camelot,
Now that Teddy’s farm is bought.
A brother he was with too much to live up to.
A politician with way to much to try to do.
And so very little precious time
To make penance for his crime.

Yes, Ole Teddy K has gone away, to the senate in the sky to play
With his service themed like a famous breakfast on St. Patty’s Day.
We’ll miss him more than he might have thought.
For, he was a voice for all those who had not.
A legend striving to rise above his fatal flaws,
Making history with his fabled, flapping jaws.
He had a tireless sense of coming through,
carrying a torch of freedom for me and you.

TED KENNEDY’S FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS

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