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08-24-2012, 09:21 AM
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| Cherry Pie   Joined: Oct 2005 From: south of the train tracks I Ride: KFC | Poem ~ Another Biker Who Has Gone Down This has been an insanely rough week. Someone quoted MikeFSU's blog from 11~13~2008 & it reminded me of the poem I had read in that video. It has been enough years & with so many new forum members who haven't heard of the poem, I thought it would be a nice reminder. Mikey's mom (YamaR1, not MikeFSU) has given permission for anyone to copy / use her poem as long as credit is given. 
Saturday, November 24, 2007 Memorial ride to Wilkeson, WA (wanted it to be out to the Carbon River bridge; Carbonado, WA but the roads were too icy) Another Biker Who Has Gone Down I’m sorry, friends, that I can’t be with you here today. If you’re all gathered reading this, it means I’ve passed away. But if I were there I’d tell you not to shed a tear or frown. I’d tell you just to simply say, “Another Biker has gone down.” If I were there I’d tell you I have no more pain or strife, That I loved my friends and family, and I had a wonderful life. If I were there, I’d tell you how I loved the small blue highways, I loved the curving mountain roads, and I loved to ride the back-road byways. I loved to be “in the wind”. I loved when that engine rumbled, And the biker friends who rode with me would help me when I stumbled. You are amongst my dearest friends, brothers and sisters of the road, We’ve traveled many miles together; shared many heavy loads… If I could be there with you, we’d laugh and share memories from our past, And this gathering would be just one more tale, another story, not our last. But today I can’t be with you, except in heart and memory stores. So you’ll have to laugh, remember the past, and then let you engines roar! Please smile and do not shed a tear, wipe away that silly frown, I’m off upon that final ride, another Biker who has gone down. | |
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08-24-2012, 09:50 AM
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| Chicken Strips  Joined: Nov 2010 From: Puyallup I Ride: '08 1098, '12 300 xcw, '12 RMZ 450 | Thanks for sharing WF, bittersweet words for the departed riders. I don't know Connie, or her son, but those words are very fitting for the recent loss. |
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08-24-2012, 07:06 PM
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   Joined: Sep 2005 From: Bremerton I Ride: 05 KTM 625smc, 03 Are See fiddy one, 05 DRZ470SM, 95 FZR1040, 69 Combat Commando Roadster, 73 Commando Interstate, 67 BSA B44, 71 BSA B50 | That was a sad day too... Man, too many. |
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08-24-2012, 07:20 PM
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| Knee Dragger   Joined: Oct 2006 From: Silverdale, Wa I Ride: DRZ 400SM, 848evo | Thanks Cherie for finding and posting. Thanks to Connie for a really meaningful poem. It has been a rough week from Bellingham to Portland. I really hope we all can learn and remember the good times. |
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08-25-2012, 07:00 AM
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| Peg Dragger  Joined: Aug 2011 From: Tanasbourne, OR I Ride: 2008 R6, 2007 S2R 1000 |
 Going to spread this one around. Will make sure to attribute. | |
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