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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2019-09-02 07:00 AM

31 August 2019

Honour and mourn Sorrow
with love, respect and gracious dignity
and carry her heavy on your heart
for Sorrow is Love’s bride
and the measure and cost of Love;
and Love’s bride does not look
to be cast aside
but laid down gently
on soft, green, welcoming grass.
Clothe her in exquisite, diaphonous funeral dress,
embrace her one final time,
and with a last, lingering, farewell kiss,
let her fall asleep in the quietness of time
and solemn stillness
and to sink into the loving arms of Earth
to fade
forever
and ever more
into
nothingness
but the breath of Earth’s heart.

Then plant new seeds of Happiness
of your own creation
and hard work
and good will
and determination.
Nurture them,
bless them,
water them,
sun the new growths,
love their frailty into strength,
grow them into fullness
and delight in their and your rewards.

Inspired-8
Member

since 2008-04-14

Posts 311
Pluto

1 posted 2019-09-03 09:21 PM

Wow brilliant write can be taken on so many levels and the metaphors are quite ingenious much enjoyed thank you.

Inspired-8

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2019-09-05 03:27 AM

Thank you, Inspired-8, for your kind words.

Krawdad
Member Elite

since 2001-01-03

Posts 2597

3 posted 2019-09-06 12:12 PM

Never found it to be this easy . . .
But carry on - there is no other choice.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

4 posted 2019-09-06 04:03 AM

Thank you for your honest and heartfelt reply, Ed. No, it is not easy, that is why I had to write the poem and throw my heart and soul into it. Nothing important and worthwhile, ever is easy and it always requires total and utter dedication - and, in the case of those we have lost, we owe it to them because that is what they would wish for us - as we would have for them if the tables were turned - and in the case of those who have rejected us, we owe it to ourselves, and in the case of those we have rejected for whatever reason, we owe it to them to wish it for them, and because we care for them, no matter what they have done to us to make us reject them, even if only for our own well-being and protection.

I know that you particularly understand the lines:

for Sorrow is Love’s bride
and the measure and cost of Love;

Wishing you every fragment of happiness you can find. Gather them and celebrate them.

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