I will Lord praise You now for my friend Kokoy
Whom I was sure I just this morning saw / Walking unseeing toward me on a slowly
Brightening sidewalk brightening after
a late autumn thaw / The snow
Becoming what it always was
and never was and couldn’t be / Water then vapor
where it fell as snow
Died yesterday in the Philippines
And as he walked the man who wasn’t
Kokoy walked / I saw he wasn’t couldn’t be
the man I hoped he was / And still he was / And full
Of life and also his own life
I praise You for the man I didn’t know
and for the man I didn’t know I loved
