(Cynthia’s wisdom)
You will live on.
This is your gift —
Your aliveness
with which you feel
every incredible tender thing —
the supple softness of rose petals,
the rush of breath against your heart,
stirrings of life forces
across your skin
You are alive
and you can bring them with you,
the ones you loved —
You haven’t lost them
because they live in you.
You can’t leave them
any more than you could leave
your bones, your blood
You have to take them with you
(which is what you wanted anyway)
This is your gift
to you and your loved ones —
You take them with you
as you live on.
©Wendy Mulhern
June 29, 2014
I love this Wendy….it’s what I’m beginning to feel what you wrote more strongly. To take Chris with me as I live on. To start living my life more fully. I love your poetry. I think you are very clairvoyant. I am starting to get out a little more, trying to go to the dances when I can. It’s difficult yet very healing. I do it for Chris too. big big hug
Thanks. Your hug is meaningful.