[MEG33]

I am so sad for you, OESY.
Heaven has gained a beautiful angel.

May God place his arms around you and comfort you.
1st Corinthians 13

[MEG33]

Good Morning To Amy's Place

Ruins in a Moonlit Landscape by Bocklin

Visit to a Ruin by WayzataJOHNN

Upon the hill the pile lit by the moon in its nightly race,
all tumbled block and old stone beams fallen in disuse.
Drifting clouds make the light a thing of chance and place,
and gives the ancient ruin a ghostly air that can not be a ruse.

I walk among the tumbled stones and see what once stood here,
think about the lives that flowed across time amid these ancient walls.
The laughter bright and the sweet sad tears, the pain and glory too,
part joy, the fear, shaping life, times of souls who inhabit still these halls.

The wind, it whispers, and the shadows take forms that tell the ancient tale,
they shift in retelling of the glory and loneliness inside the worn, tired wall.
Of this, the last stone fortress of the heart and all that it can so cunning hide,
be it victory or fail, the souls who lived their lives here are history’s to recall.

I am quietly humbled by the moment and things I now perceive,
and give a moment to honor them who strove, even as they failed.
I quietly leave them to time’s gentle hand, now by the ages shrive,
to ponder yet the glories and the struggle against which they prevailed.

[OESY]

Thank you all for your beautiful flowers and words and thoughts and prayers.