Life’s Occupational Hazard
Death knocks on all doors
Breaks sealed windows
Levels the roofs of daily life.
Wake up to the smell
Of your mortality.
Embrace the Oneness
We all share with the ALL.
See the light within,
The darkness without
Will slowly fade
Revealing what’s known
By the simplest
Of Souls whose forbearance
Is a lesson taught
In the hospital halls
Of humanity:
The idea that love
Is a force creative
That dies not
Except in the hands of those
Whose hearts are closed.
Care Givers use that
Which is given them
By those who need help
With daily living:
Eternal life’s mirror,
The real Self’s
Reflected Image
Of every thought,
Word, gesture and deed.
Cosmic scrutiny
Of our commitment
To the Divinity’s
Edict to love each other
As He does us all.
Selfishly Selfless,
Since serving others
Is the narrow path
To and through the gate
Leading to the land
Of the truly free.
It is to this land
That hundreds of thousands of
Covidians now travel,
Caught unawares
They would be called
Away too soon from
The things and the people
They loved with vigor:
Homes, hobbies, foods,
Children, spouses, friends,
All left unable to protect,
Unable to comfort and console
In the precious little time
This sinister disease
Allows us to respond.
Our first responders
Have become our last.
Their intensive caring
More than the sum of all
The world’s sand granules,
By which they transform
The pain and agony
Of Human suffering
To something wondrous
For all to witness:
Love’s ability
To permeate darkness
With Divine Light,
Illuminating The Path
On which we all come from
And on which we all return.
Travel with God’s speed.
Original 3/8/2017 (on the death of a friend to cancer)
Revised 4/24/2020 (on the deaths of hundreds of thousands)