Includes the original poem "The Dash."
I read of a man who stood to speak
At the funeral of a friend
He referred to the dates on her tombstone
From the beginning to the end
He noted that first came the date of her birth
And spoke the following date with tears,
But he said what mattered most of all
Was the dash between those years. In 1996, an announcer read Linda Elliss poem "The Dash" aloud on a syndicated...