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Vintage Words .
It may comfort those living
in some ghost hunter mindset, if
days of burning oils and incense
in bedrooms make the dead content.
.
If you believe that the dead hang
around, worthy or not, you may trust
me that they are gone with the last
whiff of smoke. If not, then music
and dancing might make them
ecstatic.
.
When I die, and after-living
happens suddenly, I would figure
I had been around bedrooms
and you all long enough. I would
stay and haunt, remaining a
few invisible weeks or all smiling year,
symbolic or real, if you burned
the right incense.
.
It is a nice idea to make happy
the spiritually departed's kin
with visitations. Existence
is organized with impenetrable
barriers so that any connection
is absolutely lost with family,
life long friends, and the absolute
strangers you loved.
.
Some farewells will be completely
concluded without wishes
for a speedy and safe return.
.
Lady A
11-29-13
226p
.
Incense, spirit, and the
Incense, spirit, and the connection to all we touch with the heart. You, Allets, a "heart toucher" in a most truthful way.
...peace be yours always.
...and he asked her, "do you write poetry? Because I feel as if I am the ink that flows from your quill."
"No", she replied, "but I have experienced it. "
Death As A Part
of living gets trapped by the imagination inside remembering. Eternity concepts flake off and land like cold snow on warm foreheads. Never the twain shall meet. We grieve and want both levels to merge. History has determined that death is not permanent, the living have determined that death is not a separation factor. Dichotomies if this ilk arise when the unbearable happens.