May Your

   
May your death be a brush
of soft lips, cool as a kiss
leaving rose red petals
strewn hear and there
on snow

May your death be a whisper
warm and tickling
breath on your ear
the news you were waiting for
of the one you
have always
loved

May your death be a
sigh
burdens slipping to the ground
chest rising effortless
eternal rising
lungs breathing the universe for the
first time

May your death be like
freedom, like sun on bare skin
like the ripening of a golden
fruit falling
to rest beneath green
leaves and sky

May your death be ancestors,
angels, a doorway to vast
eternities just the size of
homecoming, just the size 
of love




















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