Go head, imagine the worst:
losing what you love, even everything,
the end of the world.
It’s only a matter of time,
as it always has been—
a moment away, or a millennium,
but always looming.
Let it be gone. Don’t skip over the grief
of taking seriously that all this is passing.
Mourn it fully. Let that pain be free,
as at a funeral.
But then after the service, after the luncheon,
the stories and the finger food,
you walk out to the church door and pause,
look out onto the street,
and consider how now to go on,
how to live in this present moment
with love and joy.
Death is behind you now,
even the loss you will keep on having
is behind you.
The world has ended.
But there are people to love.
Even in the end times
there are people to love.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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