I left the memorium from
the paper around
for a year
It makes me feel like she
is still real
Still here-yet not
She helped every down & out
No matter what
I think about her today-the
first anniversary of her passing
Annie gave her life to others freely knowing that AIDS would take her someday. It did. She remained active in helping others until
she was finally admitted to the hospital to die. Not from complications due to AIDS. She died from starvation. As a friend I feel
ashamed I didn't make sure she was provided for nutritionally. She was extremely thin. I pray this never has to happen again.
TIRED
go to sleep, my tired one
It's all getting kind of strange for me although I knew
I thought you'd be
forever at my each and every need
struggling oh so selfishly my eyes
were blind I couldn't see
the pain that clearly
lie within your
own
Now I know the day you said good bye to me
you
didn't have to lie to me
you wouldn't take a ride from me and
that's the last I saw of you
my friend
Words don't properly describe the love you gave
to all who tried to
stay the way the world said they should be
you gave all that you could of you
'til there was nothing left and so
you took your last long walk up to the hill
And I will not say now that I could not forgive myself
for not noticing that you were fading fast
and all that's left is footsteps on the snowy garden path
footsteps that like you are fading fast
But you really made your mark, you did
and having bared the scars of this terrible
disease within our souls
Your death, as your life was a triumph to the state
of the world at large and lives on and leaves
its mark
indelibly
and I knew how tired you must be so
sleep, hon
go to sleep
for annie/bfoster/2000
