What is Dying?
A ship sails and l stand watching
till she fades on the horizon
and someone at my side says,
'She is gone'
Gone where?
Gone from my sight, that is all
she is just as large as when l saw her
The diminished size and total loss of sight is in me,not in her,
and just at that moment
when someone at my side says,
'She is gone '
there are others who are watching her coming and other voices take up a glad shout,
'There she comes!'
and that is dying.
Marie
7th February 2024
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Sent by Heart of England Co-operative on 06/02/2024
I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.
Extract from a poem by Henry Scott Holland