My response to Seneka420.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfxSIxT61YE
The sorrow that surrounds our hearts
is born of the joy you have placed there.
Our memories of you live within our hearts.
Their warmth will guide us through these times.
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Life's Tapestry
The tapestry that is Life is one that is never finished.
It holds tales of our fathers and their fathe
rs before them,
but they flow into our own and those of our brothers.
Within those scenes may be seen
times of triumph and happiness...
times of trial and sorrow.
Tales that we leave unfinished are carried on,
sustained by our sisters and our cousins.
They blend into and become the tales
of our children
and of their children after them.
Hidden within the folds of this tapestry
there lies a fortune that often goes unnoticed.
We glimpse a portion of it when we share
a moment of revelation with a child...
an afternoon with a friend...
a lifetime with a loved one.
It is
ironic that it is in times of darkness,
those times that bring trial to our lives,
that the brilliance of that fortune
is revealed within the folds of Life's tapestry.
Perhaps that is when those around us see the need
to share that wealth, to come together
to ease the intensity of t
hat darkness.
For it is then that we experience
the full effect of the love of our families
and the compassion and concern of our friends.
If the effect of that wealth is to erase our woes,
that is an added windfall.
However, the solace it brings is reflected
in the tempering of the shad
ows
in the tapestry that is Life.
Copyright 2006
Ken Gierke
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