In The End

by Gina Dawson

Is it really the year 2000?
Where has everyone gone to?
It's been so long since
I had a best friend to talk to.
I remember a time when everyone
I loved was still a part of my life.
Now, all that has changed forever
and I'm left alone with an empty ache.
But no matter how much I tired
of life with all its sorrow
and it's overwhelming joy,
I kept going on each day.

Till finally I figured out
that through sheer force of my will
and the love I still felt in my heart
I was giving them a new life to live.
In a way we could still be together.
I know this is what they wanted,
for me to accept that though
they were gone in the flesh,
nothing could separate them
from my heart, soul, and mind.

After the ranting, the denying,
the dull aching inside of me,
acceptance must win over
no matter how hard we try
to keep it at bay.
I was wrong in my thinking
that acceptance is letting death win
and allowing it to gloat over you.
No not at all.
Acceptance is allowing those you
had loved to make that transition
from one dimension to the next
and to be at peace.
At peace knowing your ties
to each other will never be broken.

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