Thinking one day of my mortality and the next dimension, my thoughts turned to Julie, my wife, my love, and how I would find her there in the land that only the soul can know. These are the words that came to me:*
How Will I Find You?
There in the light blue sky
Where I look for your face
In the soft white puff of cloud?
There in the empty chair
Where you once quietly sat
In the room of my solitude?
There in the now barren garden
Where I once watched you
Kneeling, planting your seeds?
There along the pristine beach
Where we collected sea glass
Among the gulls and shells?
Where will you be when I am
In the shadows of tomorrow
A man lost in youth’s sorrow?
How will I find you, my love
Knowing not where to look
In such a strange new world?
When my timid spirit wavers
There in that unknown land
How will you return to me?
In the darkness that is death
What is God’s demand of me
To atone for sins of life?
Why does this most peculiar
Etching of words play so
Strongly upon my defiled soul?
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BR Chitwood November 13, 2020 (From the Archives)
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