The days are getting shorter and colder,
but I ask you to remember:
even as the Winter comes in,
there is Hope and there is Light.
~Seamus Heaney
a deliberate and sensitive knowing…
inquiry for today~ maybe it’s ok to see the world anew again…
There are nights when the world feels unusually quiet- when the sky stretches wide and deep, and something inside me opens just enough to let the memories slip through. Tonight was one of those nights. I looked up, not expecting anything in particular, just searching for a moment of stillness- and that’s when it happened.
A sudden flicker, a streak of light tearing softly across the dark. And without warning, it brought you back to me.
Not in body, not in presence- but in feeling.
In that familiar ache that says, I still miss you. I always will.
Time may have moved forward, carrying days, months, even years with it, but grief has a way of staying- quietly, faithfully- like a shadow beside the heart. A part of me truly did go with you, and sometimes I feel the empty space it left more sharply than others. I still catch myself wondering why you couldn’t stay longer- why the world had to go on without you in it.
That shooting star, bright and brief like so many beautiful things, felt like a message. A silver tear cut into the night sky, reminding me that it’s still allowed- to feel, to ache, to remember. That crying is not a weakness, but a way the heart releases what it can no longer hold.
Maybe the sharpness of this pain will soften in time. Maybe the memories will shift, turning their edges from sorrow to warmth. And maybe one day, when I think of you, the first thing that comes will not be the ache- but the smile you once gave me, the light you left behind.
Until then, I carry you gently, tenderly, as the night carries the stars.
Wishing you a peaceful evening,
May your heart rest softly tonight,
And may the quiet hours bring comfort, warmth,
And blessings to guide you through the dark into a gentler dawn.
~Mitra
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