Death for One Ought Not Mean Death for Two

March 23, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Spring in honor of the March equinox, or the coming of spring, which falls on March 20.

Today’s poem compares the emergence from grief to the coming of spring.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Death for one ought not mean death for two.

We cannot die of grief unless we will.

Love requires us to love life still,

Lest love be less than life and death are due.

We cannot choose but choose for others, too,

For what we choose does what we are distill,

And open fields with inner sweetness fill,

That those who pass might hope or faith renew.

So may your love for loved ones that remain

Bring you through this season of despair

To some unquiet, sad, but gentle spring.

Emerging from your chrysalis of pain,

May you find a new world blossomed there

With new songs bittersweet that pleasure bring.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/deathf.html. For more poems about death, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/deathpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Spring

March 20: Spring

March 21: Your Hazel Green Eyes

March 22: March

March 23: Death for One Ought Not Mean Death forTwo