Beyong Endings...

Though I need to weep your loss,
You dwell in that safe place of my heart
Where no storm or night or pain can reach you.

Your love was like the dawn
Brightening over my life,
awakening beneath the dark
a further adventure of color.

The sound of you voice found for me
a new music that brighten everything.

Whatever you enfolded in your gaze
quickened in the joy of its being;
You place smiles like flowers
On the altar of my heart.
Your mind always sparkled
With wonder at things.

We look toward each other no longer
From the old distance of our names;
Now you dwell inside the rhythm of breath,
As close to me as I am to myself.

Though I can not see you with outward eyes,
I feel you smiling back at me from within
Let me not look for you only in memory.
Where I'd grow lonely without you.
You would want me to find you in presence,
Beside me when beauty brightens,
When kindness glows.
And music echoes eternal tones.

May you continue to inspire me
To enter each day with a generous heart.
To serve the call of courage and love
Until I see your beautiful face again
In that land where there is no more separation,
Where all tears will be wiped from my mind
and where I will never lose you again.