These moments now embrace us bittersweet...
We have now learned about the fragile and slender thread...
Which separates life and death
It's that breath taking suddenness...
As this new reality hits...
All that has come before this seems irrevocably broken...
Heads hang in mourning...
Sorrow is the price and debt we owe for loving you so much
Grief is the tax we pay for having the privilege of sharing in your life
What a strange and heavy burden the bonds of love lay upon our hearts
Yet, we carry the heaviness...
Like soldiers standing honour
You taught us this...
In remembrance you now live
Celebrating the dear and treasured memories past
Tears well and fall...
Our shapeless pieces of prayer whisper to you
There is no right time that we would have set for parting with you
Our hearts are ingrained with these moments of existence
Embracing our soul...
To the coming of day
For we, your legacy carry on
Living the seasons
Each morning at day break
Through the stillness in the deep of winter white
And the birth of spring coming
For death has not extinguished all of the light...
It has only turned them out because dawn has come...
Missing you won't be easy
But this we must do...
For we are here...
And you are there...
Now bigger than the sky
And underneath the moon
Forever and always watching over us
And the land where your crops once grew...
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