Death and love. Love and Life: If God is love and Love is life, then we as living beings are specks of God.

Death brings us close to our inner most feelings of  fragility. It is a brush with the reality of us leaving this world. If we dont have connection to the realness of who we really are then death becomes a paralysing fearful time.

Death of someone we love is excrutiating. It is an immense sadness that takes time to recover from. Everyone is experiencing death in the form of friends and lovers, neighbours and those not so close. It brings up tremendous power that we can use to further open our hearts to explore the pain and live it and allow it to help us expand spiritually, or, if we are scared we use it to close our hearts to the pain. When the heart closes to avoid the pain it is difficult too open it again.

My brother died in January 2013. Here is the pain I felt.

Lament for Peter                                             by  Michaela McGrath.                                       January 2013.

 

Who is it to say, that you leave me this way?

My heart is broken today.

Where does it say, you must leave in this way?

My heart is broken today.

Who pulls you up,

and out of harms way?

Pulling you out of your place,

To where  I can’t see your face,  and

Where parched deserts sands

Choked the life from your eyes, and

took touch from your hands.

 

Where is the child’s smile

That stretched year upon mile?

You turn not to my cries

Look not with your eyes.

 

Lying Cold, is your form

The sun refuses to warm

You, from where life was torn.

Let me lay by your side,

Till sin, ego and pride

Leave me nothing to hide but

 my grief.