Memento Mori

Will I meet you having spent my days shunning you and hiding from your sting? 

Will I have learned to walk peacefully with you in the shadows, unafraid of your eventual appearance? 

Will I learn to fear you less the more I learn to love all that is me and all that is this world? 

Will I bravely use you to strengthen my grip on these moments I’ve been given …to sit deep in the saddle and ride wide awake through the beautiful fury of my life? 

Will I learn to hear the weeping and wailing of the mourners that shaped my earliest introduction to you as offerings to a great mystery or as sirens warning me to run far away from you for as long as I can?

 Will I see it as a glad morning when it’s my time to fly away from all I’ve become and all that I’ve loved? 

Will I allow you to show me the part you’ve played so silently in all that I’ve created and loved as you take my hand for the first time? 

Will you see in me the merging of the beautiful innocence I entered this realm with now merging into the mileage of my life traveled deep and wide? 

And before we depart, will you let me thank my eternal loves for breathing life into me and eradicating all the fears that tormented me in my early years that I would be alone and miss out on fully living my destiny and purpose? 

And finally, will you let me thank my well loved consort of a body for this rough and tumble, dig and claw my way as deeply as possible into life’s journey of pleasure and pain that she made possible?

 Will you let me thank you for leading her to the place where she gets to rest once again?