Beautiful cosmos -
On a beautiful sunny day we came together to honor you and once again you put us first We said goodbye to you and memories of half a lifetime flooded through my brain It is an accident of fate which country we are born into and another where we meet Each of us might point at the speck on the map where we were born and never imagine the other until we meet by chance across the globe and time So today we listen as your past unfolds in ways we hadn’t known We know so very little of the lives around us - the hopes - the struggles We are privileged to have been a small part of a vast mosaic and wish only there was more time to ask the questions we never thought to ask or have a simple talk and tea The times are often fraught but each day we take turns carrying each other on the journey For those of us still here we hope to touch others in what time we have left learning the lessons you taught us every day hoping to pass them on trying again and again so that we leave behind our own blanket of care We must be really present We must show up for others for all the right reasons Pay attention for serendipities There are guides all around us if we are open to them Our lives - our work - our families - our friends intertwining through the years Each day is an invitation so each day we try again to model humanity to others We came to say goodbye We left saying thanks for a simple life of caring mindful of the lives you touched never standing in the light you cast so others could shine On a day that promised pain I found an unexpected truth known but unexpected still We are here to touch others We are here to show care We are here to uplift If that’s all we do we have succeeded at this game called life