Poetry

[Dekalb_Blues]

A Parable of Immortality

I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze
and starts for the blue ocean.

She is an object of beauty and strength,
and I stand and watch until at last she hangs
like a speck of white cloud
just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says,
"There she goes!"

Gone where?

Gone from my sight... that is all.

She is just as large in mast and hull and spar
as she was when she left my side
and just as able to bear her load of living freight
to the place of destination.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her.

And just at the moment
when someone at my side says,
”There she goes!”
there are other eyes watching her coming...
and other voices ready to take up the glad shout...

”Here she comes!”

~ Henry Van Dyke





गते गते पारगते पारसंगते बोधि स्वाहा
(gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā)
"gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond-- O what an awakening, all hail the goer!"


Bon voyage! dear Carla.  Thank you for your loving service.  How many lives have you been instrumental in illuminating?  A life well done.  A thousand cheers to your spirit!







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