It is one year ago tonight that you left your body at two fifty five a m

The pain I knew at that time is indescribable and I choose to not recall again

The strength of our love and the wisdom you shared

Were the bolsters of my spirit as I wailed in despair.

I remember your uncertainty of whether your life to be fleeting

You were so connected to all your past lives that it was a question that merited repeating.

You opened my eyes and I opened your heart

Falling in love again this lifetime as if it were the very first start

I celebrate your life and I celebrate your death

For I know that we are transient with each inhale/exhale breath

I remember the love and acceptance of being

For the joy of spirit and spirit of joy were one and the same and certainly worth seeing

You soulfully sacrificed your life for me this time around

So I can truly know who I am with feet firmly rooted to ground

Thank you a million times over for being my wife

And thank you a million times over for guiding me now in my life

You guide me to stay in my heart and acknowledge what is

To embrace peace, love, friendship, and joy; however it manifests

And it did.

My new love brings me this, she is wonderful, and I am thankful beyond words

Although I will thank you aloud and again for guiding me here as if winged love borne on a bird

Blessings my love you will always be in my heart

I appreciate all that I had with you as well as now this loving fresh start.

You once wrote on a scrap “it is not what I have become, it is how I became.”

I know this to be true and this lesson of being is not in vain

I am heartful and conscious and breathing in light

This spiritual training has taught me to take flight

Thank you Jill, my love, once again for all that you are

Thank you Jill, my love, for meeting me this far.

Blessings and hugs are the best to describe

The warmth of feeling that you gave me to breathe in and imbibe.

Drunk on the elixir of truth and of love

I have finally taken wing with the peace of a dove.

Namaste