"Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth."
- Nikolai Berdyaev
I've lost a dear friend.
Why must death be a one-way street?
New Heavens ~ Source
~Celebrating Your Departure~
by Duncan Cary Palmer
Beloved friend, you've gone away
Before the music ended.
If I could summon yesterday,
I'd ring you up, just to say 'Hej!',
Assorted words appended.
Pages of the calendar
Consume life in a dizzy blur.
It's simply wrong
That you're no longer here.
Was it a final marathon,
No, not a half, a whole?
A splendid dream too grand to end,
That drew you to your goal?
I'll miss our conversations
'Neath the starry sea above,
Discussing mysteries of life
And finer points of love.
But I've one last request of you,
As I've been left behind:
Please—save a thousand years! Nay, two!
Days set aside for me and you.
Mayhap some friends will join our crew?
~
For it has often crossed my mind,
While struggling below,
That Heaven's shore is just the place
Adventure for to find.
Let's quest a quest across a sky
We've only gazed upon.
But this time, let us tread the face
Of spheres that whirl
through outer space;
A marathon, a worthy race,
An exploit worth a try.
For Heavens new, and new Earths too,
Wrapped in eternity,
Provide a slate so vast, so blank,
For which we have but One to thank,
A future, on which we can bank...
Beloved friend,
I'm missing you.
~FIN~
On a Whirling Sphere... ~ Source
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This poem is really touching especially for believers who understand the many allusions within the text to the Christian response to loss of a loved one. We don't mourn as others do, but we do experience loss - but it's loss infused with hope of an eventual reunion. Console yourself with this, my friend - it's very evident from the poem that this person was deeply loved and now is deeply missed - I can think of no better tribute to his memory...and yes, I keep you in my prayers :)
Thank you so much, my dear Brother in Jesus...
I know our views on many things diverge, yet I also know that we have fellowship in the things most important. I still hold out the hope that one of these days, I may yet pass through your neighborhood and perhaps take you to dinner.
Besides, I relish the thought of being able to say "I told you so!" throughout eternity... ;)
(And, of course, vice versa, for those vanishingly few points you were right about...)
Nothing would give me more pleasure, my friend, but we'd take you to our special patio pub - @Countrygirl says hello and sympathizes with your loss. As for diverse views, I don't always agree with myself and I hold all things lightly except that I know in whom I believe... apart from that, things are subject to change and I seem to change more now than i did in my thirties (funny thing that?!) lol
"I don't always agree with myself"
LOLOL!
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Hello dear friend @creatr
I am very sorry for the loss of your friend, my most sincere condolences.
Losing a friend is like losing a brother, you can find other friends along your way, but you can never heal the wound caused by the departure of a friend.
Thank you my friend.
He was my brother as we are both sons of Jesus/God, and I know I will see him again one day by God's kind grace.
Thank you for your condolences! I hope all is well with you and your beautiful family.
Sorry to hear that @creatr. I pray that his/her loved ones find comfort to move on.
It is good to see you after such a long while here
Thank you, my friend. It is nice to see you as well.
I've had some difficulty being creative in the midst of all the global tyranny recently...
But I am trying to overcome that tendency!
Thank you so much for stopping in to say hello! <3
Sorry for your loss and you did an amazing post in your friend's honor. I always have so much trouble with stuff like that. It was very tough posting pictures of Paul Martello on Stan's post. Some people certainly stand out in our lifetimes, don't they? Big hug to you :)
Thank you, friend, for your very kind words. Though I never met him, I also grieved Paul's passing. Yes, some people truly stand out!
Big hugs back as well... :D <3