Uncle Eric
On the occasion of your 90th
As the years march on
As the limbs slowly fail
As time passes through like a laughing visitor
Overstaying his welcome!
You remain the ever-growing inspiration.
Your life,
Your commitments
Your relating to all people
Irrespective of creed color or ethnicity
Your all encompassing, unconditional love
Your validating all struggles large and small
Your devotion to wife and family
Remain like a northern star
Constant and pointing the direction for others to follow.
You cared for me (and Rochelle) in our infancy, those
crying babies! The love engrained in our bodies to this
day, a place of softness in the heart of memory, the
tissue of unconscious recognition awakened each
time we meet.
As children huddled around a tiny black and white TV
straining for the moment the camera panned away
from the BBC conductor and we caught a glimpse of
Uncle Eric, in China…in Europe, or elsewhere across
the globe.
Your are the family legend, in reality
The myth in the flesh,
The aristocracy of goodness incarnate
A restoration of the name SARGON!
Of kindness, morality ethics and faith.
Of one who endured so much in childhood,
And rather than be defeated by it,
used it as fodder for ethical development.
Never to allow it to happen to others if you could
somehow protect them, foster them, guide them and
inspire them.
You remain my guiding light
My motivating principle
My ethical compass
What is left but to bless you,
Your life,
Your wonderful personality
With health and good cheer
With “nachas” from your family
For you are the patriarch for all of us
With love and unconditional loyalty
Your nephew
Julian
