I Cannot Think You're Not Alive Somewhere

October 28, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is belief in the supernatural.

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A poem about the origin of the belief in life after death:

I cannot think you're not alive somewhere.

I think of you just as I did before.

No sudden gust of wind has closed the door

Or made your presence vanish in thin air.

I write you this because I know you're there;

That even after death there must be more.

So does faith one's inner sun restore

After bitter darkness few can bear.

My mind and heart have not yet lost a friend

Even though my senses are bereft,

For you remain the witness of my soul.

No mere accident our love can end

So long as I have will and memory left,

And you lie silent on some unknown shoal.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Belief in the Supernatural

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10/27: Children Who Die Are Not Really Gone

10/28: I Cannot Think You’re Not Alive Somewhere