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To mourn death

Louis Joseph Lawyer Student in J.B. French’s Video Production class
Thursday January 10, 2002

The Daily Planet received a copy of this poem, written by a student to Berkeley High School teacher Joseph Blaine French on the death of his wife Tatia Malika Oden French. 

 

To mourn death would be too painful 

To enjoy it would be wrong 

To except it would be the way of humanity 

But to unite would be a great conquest 

There is no man who holds against the pain of  

A lost one 

There is no man who can be strong with just pride 

Because it is not pride that builds his strength, 

It is love a man can give to leave for others 

Strength will keep you alive, 

Strength will be there to provide and 

Strength will never be an eternal lie. 

 

Louis Joseph Lawyer 

Student in J.B. French’s Video Production class