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For bri

Postby witchylass1965 » Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:11 pm

A Parable of Immortality

I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze
and starts for the blue ocean.

She is an object of beauty and strength,
and I stand and watch until at last she hangs
like a speck of white cloud
just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says,
" There she goes! "

Gone where?

Gone from my sight . . . that is all.

She is just as large in mast and hull and spar
as she was when she left my side
and just as able to bear her load of living freight
to the place of destination.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her.

And just at the moment
when someone at my side says,
" There she goes! "
there are other eyes watching her coming . . .
and other voices ready to take up the glad shout . . .

" Here she comes! "

~Henry Van Dyke


I miss my partner and best friend so much.He fought long and hard against para aortic paraganglioma but it won in the end;Bri died at 0700 on Sunday July 19th 2009 (RIP)
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Cancer Diagnosis: Metastatic Paraganglioma
Relationship To Patient: Live-in caregiver

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