Left Behind

Waiting Gifts

~Left Behind~

I’d  hoped not to be the partner left behind

left without you, without the me I knew

left alone to start anew or die within

I did not know that grief could hit

rock bottom then rise again to

surface in a present rich with

deeper understanding, new 

eyes, fresh beginnings

New Life - New Me

Dear Heart - I wonder, had I died first and 

you’d been left behind to find the gift of

new beginnings, what would you have

wrought with it? The very thought a

challenge to do my utmost with

this gift I have been handed

this rich new opportunity

to think, discover and

To Live

JoMae

1/26/19

Year three, and I am learning to see this new phase of my life, this new chapter, as a gift, an opportunity I’d never have known had I died first.  A present to carefully open and enter with quiet anticipation. A faint echo of the day when death takes me home to the new life joyfully awaiting there.