Child's Play

As a child I played with soldiers
then later with romance.

As an adult I played with power
and later with finance.

Then one day
I became part of a small funeral game
in which people dressed themselves
in black & gray

& near the place where my ashes lay
in fields of auburn grass
birds sang in a gentle breeze
as little ones
who knew nothing at all about "me"
joyfully played & danced.