Where Love Wins
Grief comes to everyone differently and mine usually takes a while. Maybe its my overly exaggerated imagination that I can carry that person with me until my heart and mind finally realize that they will never be physically with me again. Maybe it is my faith that I know my loved ones are never far away as long as I can carry them in my heart. Nonetheless there are moments that I feel deep sorrow and emptiness from the loss of past loved ones. During these moments this quote by Rainer Maria Rilke comes to mind. "Think of the world you carry within you."
This simple poetic quote reminds me I carry a world of beauty and love within me each and everyday. I carry all of you and I carry all of them, so their words, faces and teachings can not be forgotten. I carry love and some days I am lucky enough to carry words. This is a poem I wrote several years ago as the grief of the loss of my Mother finally embraced me, feeling parentless for what was suppose to feel like eternity but instead these words flowed out where love wins.
To be honest with you I don't remember writing it, in fact it was stuck in an old blog thread that I have been revisiting for ideas and writing topics. I even went as far as Googling a few sentences because it doesn't seem like my own writing pattern. Maybe it was divine intervention or possibly the words from an ancestor I carry within my soul, nonetheless I hope it finds you comfort and peace.
Too many days I carry my world tucked deep inside me. On the saddest days, my head whirls my heart physically aches and my emotions override my senses leaving me numb, inattentive and quiet.
These days are dark, but not without justification or need. For every being must go through the shadows of grief, despair and pain, it is with this journey that contours our strengths and moves us towards greater things. For if we only carry contentment do we really know the limitless of our joy?
On the happiest of days my mind sparkles, my heart shines and I cannot overcome the joy and gratitude that this good life brings forth. My heart leaps primarily for the others I carry within my own. The victories and accomplishments of those I know personify my own actions.
But is it not our real objective as humans to surpass the world we carry within and become the flicker others carry within them? Think of the world you carry within you and then surpass your world to find joy, hope and devotion as a united world, for it is in this world that love wins.
Michele
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