On the Occasion of a Death and the Acquisition of Dual Citizenship

The son-father relation is capable of a variety of dimensions. In relation to home-land and mother country changes are at times imposed upon us, whereupon we rethink a few values and examine a few loyalties. In the present case, as the title indicates, a death coincided with a change of citizenship, whereupon the poet chose to share his experience of the resulting upheaval of emotion and thought
with his community.