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Birth Day

Awakenings, Poetic Healing, Spirit Reveries

In a parlor plain and
solemn, a small crowd huddles
Tomorrow I celebrate
one more year, today
I attend my friend’s
final life celebration

Funerals produce in me
a subtle sense of asphyxiation
and I sit in the quiet chapel,
in this room full of acquaintances
and strangers, barely breathing
for fear I might explode
into unending tears

But the moon rising in my heart
speaks of fullness and cycles,
and creates in me a curious juxtaposition

and a shift happens, a veil lifts to reveal
awareness that death is life anew,
that as one celebrates birth
another now possesses a freedom
that earthly souls can only imagine

Rest in Peace, my friend,
and also my yesterday self,
for today we both start anew
and tomorrow as well,

fulfilled in the knowledge
that neither death nor birth
signify an end or a beginning

but rather each day is a new path
in our personal eternity,
one more step in the journey
of Divine life

© SpiritLed 2014

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Posted On: March 12, 2013

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  1. Maryse says

    March 12, 2013 at 1:35 pm

    Lovely, lovely. I’m coming to the same awareness. “neither death nor birth signify an end or a beginning.” Powerful words.

  2. krees67 says

    March 26, 2013 at 9:32 pm

    Well done!

  3. Ashley says

    March 26, 2013 at 9:34 pm

    Thank you!

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