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ANOTHER SOMEBODY
Somebody died today…it’s part of life’s ebb and flow
but what makes this day so different is…this somebody was somebody I know.
She had a full life, my somebody…filled with many highs and some lows…
but Death is unsympathetic…when it comes our time to go.
Yet how lucky we are has humans…
for although in death…of her presence we’re deprived
the myriad of memories we created…in a way keeps her alive…
And that’s where our sadness originates…
That’s why we feel so bereft…
not from all those memories we created together
but that those memories are all I have left.
We know Death has taken her from us…but in Death there is a plus
for Death has left her memories behind…Death can’t take those away from us.
When we want to, when we have the urge…we can visit her a while
Just by closing our eyes and remembering…
her voice,
her eyes…
her smile…
And for a moment in our silence…as more and more memories arrive
it’s as if she never left us…as if she’s still alive
And when our eyes reopen
we smile remembering all the memories we’ve sewn
and we feel blessed
she was a somebody we were lucky enough to have known.
Which gives us all hope for the time when Death comes too our door
as part of life’s ebb and flow
That we, too, will have been lucky enough
to be somebody…somebody knows.
