It’s the end of another year

Looking back on it all I’m wondering what it means

The years pass faster and faster

People are entering the world and leaving like

The breath that moves in and out of my body

Some pass easily, quietly in their sleep

Transitioning from the soft sheets to the wings of their angels

Others are in so much pain they try anything to escape

Their sadness, planning their exit, leaving behind the people that Love them to hold their pain, forever with a dagger in their hearts

Some of us have time, a warning to prepare for our passing, although it is

An option full of fear and suffering through the medieval practices of modern

Medicine, however, we are at least able to prepare our loved ones and ourselves

For the end.

And then there is the horrific accident that takes us quickly but violently, shocking our loved ones who will forever replay the tapes over and over in

Their heads like a recurring nightmare.

So the flowers die………………..the sun sets…………….but the stars shine …………

And the moon is full of the promise of a new day that is rising on the other side of the world.

Somewhere in the darkness there is a mother pushing a new life out of her

To begin a new journey of hope, love and connection.

Forever imprinting their soul in our hearts.