MORTALITY
It is sometimes in the places of mortality where death is emanate that you find life and its meaning, it seems that death has a funny way of making us aware of life… I walked through a small cemetery on Sunday, September 9th, just absorbing the quiet and the tranquility.. this is a place that generally people stay away from unless they come to grieve, say goodbye and lay to rest the once living.. but its in this quiet place where I look at the tombstones of people who once walked as I walk and it reads “ Here lies… 1887 – 1905” and I wonder what the “–“ was filled with…. I sit and think about how much respect and reverence people give to the graveyard sites where people are buried, yet when you step out, there is so little regard for life.. for the places where people live.. why people will look at, with tears, and touch tombstones of ones they will never see again in this life and yet spit on, kill, rape and abuse the ones they see everyday.
The graveyard is one of the richest places on earth.. though it holds no physical treasure… it’s a place that is filled with many dreams that have not been fulfilled, songs that have never been sung, books that have never been written.. lives that have not fully lived, people who took all their potential with them and it will never be used to build an aircraft, save a nation, bare and raise a child or create a masterpiece…
And some have died breathing their last breath having given every part of that breath meaning while it exuded from them and the legacy they leave behind doesn’t stay in the “-“… it continues in what they have left behind them…
This is a place that teaches my soul to be still in the presence of mortality and know it’s a certainty that someday I too will have this place.. but for now.. I have THIS place… and it makes me appreciate.. life. MY life.
The graveyard is one of the richest places on earth.. though it holds no physical treasure… it’s a place that is filled with many dreams that have not been fulfilled, songs that have never been sung, books that have never been written.. lives that have not fully lived, people who took all their potential with them and it will never be used to build an aircraft, save a nation, bare and raise a child or create a masterpiece…
And some have died breathing their last breath having given every part of that breath meaning while it exuded from them and the legacy they leave behind doesn’t stay in the “-“… it continues in what they have left behind them…
This is a place that teaches my soul to be still in the presence of mortality and know it’s a certainty that someday I too will have this place.. but for now.. I have THIS place… and it makes me appreciate.. life. MY life.
A Saint of old once said "You can't take out of this world, what you have BEEN given, but only what you HAVE given....a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage"
2 comments:
Don't forget to appreciate the "this" place that is where you are now - Denver/Boulder - and explore that place instead of longing for far off lands like Spain .. that way, your "-" will also be filled with the NOW instead of the WHAT IF
"The graveyard is one of the richest places on earth.. though it holds no physical treasure… it’s a place that is filled with many dreams that have not been fulfilled, songs that have never been sung, books that have never been written.. lives that have not fully lived, people who took all their potential with them and it will never be used to build an aircraft, save a nation, bare and raise a child or create a masterpiece…"
Hun this is like you reached into my deepest soul and took this out and articulated it for me. Only those who have lost people close to them could understand what you just wrote. Powerful hun, powerful.
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