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Autumnal Reverie (Poem)
As we continue through our time,
We learn to make friends with difficult loss.
Grief and mourning accompany us,
Like mist and fog on a gray autumn day.
Yet even in the bleakest moments,
We can remember fragments of joy.
Let us pause to reflect on the wonder of clouds,
The fall of rain, and the wind moving through the trees.
Thus we live with the ache of memories,
Letting their beauty and sorrow scatter like drifting leaves.
We love you always.
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Darkness And Light (Poem)
We all carry darkness within.
Sometimes this can expand
To become the world in which we move.
But this shadow space cannot exist
Without at least a glimmer of light,
Even one which was seen for a brief moment.
Our hard task is to recognize this as penumbral
And not be deluded that it is the completeness of being.
We think we live in one or other,
Yet they always co-exist.
Breathe; open your eyes; and see.
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A Complicated Death (Poem)
How to mourn you?
Only with detachment can I find room
For kindness and compassion towards you.
You struggled just as all do,
And I wish to think you did your best.
Some of your actions and words still linger with gray-tinged hurt,
But now I can feel sorrow over these rather than resentment.
When I speak at your service,
I will recount one of the few memories I have
That cast you in your best light.
May you find in this death peace from suffering,
An end to chasing illusory dreams, and the fade of your red anger.
I laid down the burden of these long ago.
Now may you do the same.
