Image: – NEKNEERAJ
Word came all at once
From miles away and worlds apart.
Death is like that
Turns up and makes its presence felt.
Life ends for a mother and a daughter grieves,
Life ends for a daughter and a mother grieves.
The pain of loss is the same
The mother’s eighty years spent on continents
Far apart and yet united
The daughter’s forty years spent
Lost in a world, not all her making.
I felt their loss, I knew their stories
I could do no more than reach out
Offer my heart in my condolences
My love to sustain them as they attempted
To move on, start again
A chapter closes and another begins.
Written for: https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/photo-challenge-167/
“A chapter closes and another begins”…that’s life in a nutshell.
Yes Cathy, its the only way to view it I think…thanks for stopping by.
My pleasure. 🙂
Wow! This has me stopped in my tracks!
Incredible writing with an interesting reading of the image – and I particularly love this:
The daughter’s forty years spent
Lost in a world, not all her making.
This is an incredible “dialogue” of sorts, even though the style doesn’t conform to it in a traditional sense, nor does the point of view, but it reads as a conversation in notes – there is almost a musical quality to this, and it’s heartfelt and rendering. It really is exceptionally well done Michael.
Thank you Pat, in both cases the deaths were felt strongly by the family and in particular the mother and daughter. I looked for an avenue to express this and saw this prompt as a way in as it was something I needed to write about.
you’ve done a really incredible job of it – and I hope, in some way, it has offered you some release, peace and perhaps, closure or reconciliation of feelings, that often are so intense.
Written from your heart; I am sorry for your friends’ losses. Love written is a condolence to all.
Thank you Lorraine
From the daughter of the mother I thank you.
My condolences to the mother of the daughter.
Worlds apart but intertwined.
xx
Thanks Jen, appreciate your coming to visit. Xx