Intimate Memories of Eddie James Kendrick

Each October 5, I travel through the years of the beautiful life and music of Eddie James Kendrick. With love and devotion, overwhelmed with emotion, I honor the legacy and memory of the thin man. Here, I share how everything Eddie still touches me.
The Intimate Balladeer lives on in my heart and ears.

Intimate Dream
©Nia

It began years ago for me
Listening, I began to see
That loving feeling that you sing
Concepts of my intimate dream

Awake, still caught in the rapture
By your essence I am captured
Familiar with the buff one's beam
Concepts of my intimate dream

More than anything, imagined
I feel your rejoice in heaven
Singing freely, your soul agleam
Concepts of my intimate dream

Gone is the face we loved so dear
Silent is the voice we loved to hear.
Too far away for sight or speech,
But not too far for thought to reach,
Sweet to remember him once here,
Who, though absent, is just as dear.

David 'Melvin Franklin' English, Eddie J. Kendrick(s), Davis 'David' Ruffin and Paul Williams
Rest and Rock in Soulful Peace