Ashes to Ashes...Dust to Trust

Letting you go when I don't want you to 

 

Here I am again, feeling this same deep ache...

You've gone and left me, with only the memories.

Just like the others that shared our special space and time, 

one by one, you've been called home.

Yeah, I know what's over there, and we'll all be there someday.

But right now I feel so much pain.

The tears that fall are 'cuz we feel so separate.

No look, no touch, no hear, no listening, no physicality.

The path we walked together always veered 

yet once again we'd find a crossroad

where we met up once again.

Your ending is your beginning and I know

you're back where you belong.

So for now I'll let the tears fall, as

I know you truly are okay.

'Cuz your back with all our loved ones

that transitioned the same way.

Thanks for stopping by

and letting me know you're okay now...

It means so much to me to have

that validation from you.

And one fine day when it's my turn

I'll meet you on the bridge I'm sure.

With her and him and them and all...

and we'll party with joy for the return from our fall.

For it's this reality that is not real, 

yet in physical shoes it's hard to heal

from the pain of separation, is why we fear death

in spite of the knowing that it doesn't truly exist.

There is no end, no beginning it's true

and our spiritual selves are what we should do...

I won't waste any time fretting or wanting to change

anything I've done or any moment in time.

I love you I do, each special one of you.

So help me to heal to get over the loss of you.

For I know you will visit and I know I will tell

special stories about you and share with others as well.

I don't mean to say that you should have stayed with us

for I know that is selfish and your own path here ended.

Just know that we're healing and moving along

but you'll always be with us to help us be strong.

Thanks for the memories, thanks for the love,

and for now... so long... and shine on us from above.

*~*SD*~*

Equality... are we there yet?

I'm not sure why we don't get it as a whole. The "fight" for equal rights is

nothing new.

The 1800's were filled with the Suffrage Movement.  Lucy Stone of 

Brookfield, Massachusetts was the first woman in Massachusetts to 

earn a college degree.  She and many, many others of like mind, 

joined the fight for woman's rights in a time when public speaking in and 

of itself was discouraged for all women, not to mention work, pay, 

treatment and the right to vote!  Not to mention the more spoken of 

equal rights for race movement.

We've come a long way baby... and yet, we've got a way to go.

Until we can look in the mirror and see our own imperfections before we

cast a judgement to another.  

Until we can sit around the campfire so to speak, and break bread with 

people that don't share our views, our belief systems, our color, our 

preferences.

Until we put love first.

The right to marry for all is fine with me.  Who am I to judge?  

Moreover, who are you to judge?  Two people in love is a beautiful 

thing.  

Love shared grows and when it's right, the energy from those two 

people who have a solid and firm foundation in their personal 

partnership will overflow and affect so many people you could not 

possibly count them all.  

We haven't got it all together yet and that's okay, because we're 

human, we aren't supposed to be perfect.  Perfection is idealism, 

not reality.

May we, who are imperfect, knowing that in our imperfection we 

can still share love.

May you, who feel less than equal, know that in the end, 

we are all one.

May they, who cast the first stone, still find unconditional love, in 

spite of themselves.

May the groups that seek to overcome, only do so with love as 

their cause, and with love for ALL, not just those that are 

members of their cause.

It often takes more strength for someone who is "different" to 

show their true colors  than it takes for a group of people who 

feel accepted by their peers and society at large.

Many years ago, when AIDS was just coming to the forefront, 

many, many people had not done their homework.  I recall 

hearing people that I had thought were intelligent people, 

saying that AIDS was just a "Gay" disease and that no-one 

else could catch it.  I instantly felt saddened for them.  

In their laughter and judgement they had missed the point.  

It could indeed be transmitted to them and it only took about 

10 years for all the facts to finally be set straight and I'm sure 

they don't look at it that way anymore.  At the time though,

they seemingly felt "superior" in their assured statements.  

They seemed to feel "safe" from "it".

People, please wake up.  No-one is "safe" from anything.  

Life is not safe, it's an adventurous exploration in the 

knowing of who we are, who we can be as people and who 

we can be as a collective 

consciousness.

Be Brave.... yes.... be very brave.  

Just because we don't understand someone that is a bit 

different from us  does not make them wrong and us right.  

Nor does it make us right and them wrong.

It is in our differences that our stained glass colored planet 

is whole.  

Share the space with love....

Peace

Spirited