How do we deal with the loss of someone we hold dear…
a family member, a partner, a husband or a wife…
a person who we can’t remember a time
when they weren’t important in our life?
We tend to curse time at these moment…
forgetting she can be our enemy…and our friend.
For she helps mark the joys of each new beginning
as well as the sorrow of each end.
How many joyous moments have we experienced
when we wished time would move ahead slow?
Where the happiness of that moment
makes us sad to see that moment go.
How many sorrowful moments have we looked for time to blame?
We curse the arrival of these moments and wish they never came.
But living in moments that are ephemeral and swift
makes me stop and wonder if…perhaps…that is time’s gift.
Perhaps time does not intend to vex, to aggravate and annoy
Perhaps she is only seeking balance between our sorrow and our joy.
Perhaps that’s why our yesterdays quickly become todays
and our todays just as quickly become tomorrows
to give our joy more opportunities to overtake our sorrows.
This ability to look into the futures as well as back into our past
Is how time helps to soothe our heart and ease our mind…
Showing us one way to climb out of our darkness
is to follow the light they behind.
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