WHEN SOMEBODY DEPARTS

 

WHEN SOMEBODY DEPARTS

 

When somebody departs from this world,

we the living are made to rue and even to regret

if we had been derelict in the temporal niceties

of properly bidding farewell to the deceased.

 

Like saying our tearful good-byes.

Reconciling if we had unresolved issues.

Conveying love by word of mouth,

 Or paying homage to that relationship.  

 

I say there is a lot more to life than this.

That is, of a contented or thorough life.

 

All memories are of the mind.

And they embrace both real actions witnessed,

 or those fancied and simply desired.

 

Even the process of reconciliation,

or saying our fond farewell,

 or even our love, starts with the mind.

 

Once started it fuses as an integral part of us,

Inseparable, to be remembered and cherished.

 

That is the beauty and splendor of our species,

for we can both be physical and/or transcendent

 

In the end, what is in the mind is more momentous,

and telling for the living.

 

We are lovingly survived by their fondness,

 and continue to treasure life because of their clinginess.

 

All noble actions desired need not all come to fruition.

Sufficient is the desire and resolve to pursue them.