Regardless of how cautiously we plan out our route and watch out for potholes, life will always throw in a few painful detours.
Our body can betray us. Our loved ones can walk away. Our mind can begin to forget. At some point, we will die.
Confronting the hardest realities of life is brave work, and a liberating practice. For there is also light in between the dark.
Excerpt from “When I Died”
By Emma Lou Thayne
So if I now am at a distance
and more and more
connected to night
and wake up with a closed smile
that takes up my wrinkles
it is that I am occupied:
by the light that tells me
where I have been and will go and
listens with me in the ringing
and rejoicing of having had the time.
Emma Lou Thayne is a respected Utah author. This poem was published in Things Happen: Poems of Survival, one of her many uplifting and insightful books.