
In the twlight tonight
Your presence is receding from me
I sense your turned back
And feel great sadness
That I will
Never again
Look into your eyes
Where I am seen
Loved
And so deeply known
So tonight
If a great silence opens up within me
And all around
Can I be strong enough to accept that you are gone
Some may say that the ghostly presence of loved ones lost
Lingers on
But I believe that after 40 days and nights
Your soul finally went beyond
I cried with tears that spoke of shedding then
But nothing like the torrent that left me tonight
When I felt my body was breaking apart
And had to hold onto Jasper for comfort
Such pain I thought may take me from this earth
May have been instead
The earthly part of me accepting
You are truely gone
So now
That you are only a memory
Visions of times and experiences past
Crowd my vision
And I am
Forced to be
My own mother
For you are not coming back
So now
I must
Find new ways
To live again
Melancholic and heart wrenching, sadly sublime.
You write so beautifully.
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Bless you how very very kind. It came out of the deepest sadness for my Mum yesterday. β€
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Love and peace to you
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Continued tender thoughts for you in your grieving. I must say it’s beautiful what we can create from our pain. I loved the line about becoming your own mother. It makes me think of the familiar theme in fairy tales. Have you ever read the story of Vasilissa and the Baba Yaga? I like the version in Women Who Run with the Wolves. You might enjoy it. π
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Oh god E I adore that fairytale and book. The Baba Yaga also appears in another fairytale on the dark goddess which Marion Woodman and Robert Bly talk about in the book the Maiden King. It talks about how when the dark goddess comes she is ruthless in that she leads us through great loss and pain, and how this matures us as souls. Thanks for this reminder. I will go to that book later today and re read that particular fairytale in WWRWTW…. β€ β€
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Robert Bly! Oh I love it when we find mirrors and guides in our midst. Here are some milk and cookies for your inner child. Happy reading. πͺπͺπͺπ₯
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I’m so sorry. This leaves me speechless. You have a way with words.
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i love how you said βthe earthly partβ. because yo are so right, so eloquently beautifully right, we are more than just our earthly parts. we are so much more than that, and we are never as alone as we feel we are, physically in the world. ππ
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But I do feel loss makes us feel alone. And we feel that loss in our earthly part which is our body. Thankfully we also have the spiritual part or aspect of ourselves in and through our mind and thoughts we can find comfort but sometimes too we need and ache for the comfort of another human being presence and body. β€
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you are so so so much right. yes. yes yes yes. ππ
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