Thinking of Mom This Morning
By Neil Fleischmann
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The mourning of death
is one painful day
loss ever present
no time makes it worse
than any other
despite street wisdom
that some days stand out
Something always gone
it is always gone
as it was once there
you didn't notice
now you can't not see
the missing person
everywhere, always
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 9:55 AM
4 Comments:
This is so true:
"now you can't not see
the missing person
everywhere, always"
Thanks Anne, I'm off today so saw your comment and am able to reply fast.
The poem was inspired by CS Lewis' journal A Grief Observed and my own experiences as I approach the five month mark.
On this past Shabbos I read that one of my favorite prayers - Anim Zemirot - has the same amount of syllables (sp?) in each line - which in part got me to do that here.
Lewis speaks of salt metaphorically and says that we don't notice it in all our food, but if suddenly we'd never have salt available at all, gone - we'd realize how everpresent it was and feel the lack...
I love this post about loss. I'm always aware of mine. Someone will be talking about anything that I can associate with him and there he is, or isn't, I guess.
Thanks for getting it and telling me that you did TD.
May you - and everyone - be blessed with a meaningful Shavuot.
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