Death.
The word that sounds like darkness. It makes me feel cold and if spoken in the right tone can create a tiny trail of goosebumps along the outer portion of my arms. It’s not a pretty word. It’s a clouded term dripping with depression. I think of graves, gloomy skies, black weeds, sunken hearts, and a deep night sky. It feels like an END. A sorrowful end. I like happy endings so the word death does not appeal to me.
I don’t like the word die either. Again it sounds like an end. A life has now become final. They have DIED. They are no more. Gone. Evaporated. Nothing.
I don’t belief in death and I don’t believe in dying.
I believe that people move on to the next the level. I believe they change forms. They graduate. They blossom. They start anew like a sunset in the early dawn. They wake up in another place. Their soul floats away into the beauty of their next phase. When they leave this world another one awaits and greets them with open arms of which they willingly embrace and breathe a sigh of appreciation for. This is the circle of life. There are no end-of-the-roads here, but a constant turn of phases. A ring of change, a big circle of constant improvement and growth. A horizon.
New beginnings. This sounds like a light-hearted phrase. I see sunshine. I feel hope. A challenge perhaps, but change is a certainty in life. You accept it or resist it. I see it as a clean state.
I wrote a little poem about it. Just kept typing as the thoughts popped up. Random and quick but true to my perceptions on the topic. Wanna hear it? Here it goes...
Do Not Think Of Me as Death (a tale on new beginnings)
Do not think of me as Death
I am a new Beginning
I am not dark
I am not withered
I am glowing, awake and singing.
Do not think that I am over
I am not final
Forever is me
My journey here is complete
I came, I conquered
now I’m free.
Do not think of me as death
I did not stop,
Just left an open space
My soul went up and away
gave me new meaning
in a brand new place.
Do not think of me as gone
You can’t see me
can’t touch me, but I’m here
I’m not tangible
to your hands
but an emotion
full of love, not fear.
Do not think that I have died
I live in your mind
I can’t be erased.
I’m the warmth in your heart
the swell of your chest
The catch in your breathe
and the tears on your face.
Death didn’t take me away
My path changed
a new journey has begun
A world unknown
to those still here
I’m one with the stars
the moon and the sun.
I am not death
I did not die
I moved on to a new beginning
On a road built of peace and love
still growing
still learning
and still singing....
