Loss

This was destined to come up at some point. You can't have life without death and death without life. It is in the unwritten laws of nature that one life must die for a new life to enter this world. Even the earth cycles through seasons of change where it cycles through death in the winter to be reborn in the spring. And so, the cycle shall remain.

This hurts. A lot. It could be the loss of a friendship, a home, a job. It could be permanent, like death. But loss is necessary. It is part of what brings balance. When I figure out how to solve this conundrum, you will be the first I tell! But would I, would we really want to not experience this feeling?

I have not suffered any loss greater than anyone else. I consider myself lucky that I have learned loss is to teach me to be grateful for the people I love, right now. Loss reminds me I am alive and that I don't have to die with each one. I need to look back fondly on the life that was lived. The lightness in the pain. They are never really gone when they live in your memories. And I am not gone with them.

Memories can keep us stuck or set us free. Why must we clip our own wings when someone we love decides it is time to move on? When they must part ways to live their own dream. Or when they pass away because their soul contract was done?

Like a contract, once life is executed, it may be amended along the way, but if the contract is voided or expires, it can't be undone, it must be rewritten. Isn't despair the most poetic of them all?

I am not afraid of death or my family living without me, they are survivors. In fact, I know my return to my maker is what I live for. I am here to shine in life and to fulfill a purpose that serves my fellow humans until it is my turn to go.

Today, my heart carries remembrance of family, friends, pets, jobs, opportunities and lovers I have lost. Whether this loss was from us parting ways in life or death, they will always be a piece of my heart.

The season of celebration is every day. We may not get another one. Sit in a breath today, you don't know when the next one will be the last. It is not the loss of others that we should mourn, but the loss of ourselves during times of grief and sadness; when depression and darkness engulfs us in our own thoughts and keeps us chained in the night.

We live while we are here and when our light burns out, we will be living a new life. One that will be a journey to something so peaceful, it will be just as beautiful as the time spent with you.

Goodbye is never really Goodbye until your heart tells you so.

Goodbye doesn't happen until you forgive the bad and remember the good.

How do you think you put the Good in Goodbye? I wish for you, comfort in your grief and hope in your hopelessness.

"When we say good-bye to people who were once important to us in any capacity, let it be bye the way of our parting, it is for the good of us all." - from the heart of inRhymes

With that I leave you with the purest of intentions to shine as a ray of hope that one day, you will live in the good part of the bye; knowing they are watching over you, like angels in the sky.

And in case you are wondering where you find the good in bye, it can be found in letting go. But that is a lesson for another day.

"Letting go of old versions of me is a loss; one where I need to say good-bye so that healing happens, and life begins again". inRhymes '72 to '24 - Sentenced to a past life.

On my heart today

RIP.

My pets Cali, Coco, most recently, my Eddie, and all the others. I know you watch over me.

My Dad, Great-Grampa, maternal/paternal family, and all the others I loved as surrogate family. There are so many, I wish I could list you all.

My friend MWM, you, always.

To all from the past to the ones from my present; and to all those that will rise and fall in the future.

Love, light and loss

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The poem "Sometimes" can be found in the Solitary Truths Collection