By me
Date: 21 December 1998

Seeing You

Making the sign of the cross I turned away from the coffin
and there you were.
a scene out of a movie.
so surreal.

You stood so tall and beautiful in back of the dimly lit funeral parlor.
all those people. all that commotion but there you were.
My best friend grieving so deeply and you appear.
Slipping back into my life as if you had never even left.
In that moment time stood still.

Slowly I walked towards you and I felt myself embrace you completely.
And I was happy in the midst of all that sorrow.
And you were happy in the midst of all that despair. 
And you held me never wanting to let go.
And I held you as if my very life depended on it.

And in that place so filled with death there was life.
And finally hope, a hope that had been a long time coming.
And there was no need for words.
And it was as if we had never been apart
And nothing had ever happened.

What now ?