The Dearly Departed
A Farewell Poem to the Souls of Embodying Collective Transformation, October 2022, Bergerac
A Farewell Poem to the Souls of Embodying Collective Transformation, October 2022, Bergerac
For the departed, and soon to depart:
Rick
Yogesh
Rob
Ilja
Robyn
Casper
Theo
Victoria
Adin
Eline
Emma
Karl
Pip
Jocelyn
Lukas
Johnson
Catherine
Leni
Nadine
Since you’ve been gone
I notice there is a place in me that has gone quiet
It’s the place that used to come alive
That rung in a way
only you could make ring
Since you’ve been gone
I notice there is a place in me that
Is expecting you to turn up for lunch,
Or to bump into you in the stairwell,
That still reaches out inside me toward you
Only to find the hands of my grasping heart clutching emptiness
Since you’ve been gone
I notice there is a place in me that quietly aches
At how much space there is now between us
When yesterday you were only a stretch of my arm away
Since you’ve been gone
I’ve fallen back into myself
Found myself a hollower body
A space still echoing with your vibration
Sill expecting to land on you if only I cast my heart net a little wider
The enduring ringing of you through me
The enduring ringing of you through me
The enduring ringing of you through me
If I sing out my heart sonar
Broadcast it out far enough
Will it find its way to you?
Will it pull you back towards me?
Or will my ringing vanish into the infinite
Never to be returned?
And now that it is my turn to depart,
What space will the absence of my ringing open for you?
What things will emerge in you now that only can because I am gone?
How will I be remembered, as my vibration travels farther and farther away from you?
And at which point will you notice that my presence has become a memory?