Love Just Is

Love doesn't always sing joyfully.

Sometimes, love cries
      and holds
           and gasps for breath.
Because sometimes,
     those we love
          leave our world 
continuing on
     to their next destination 
          without us.

The part they leave behind
     is the love,
for love
     never dies
It just is.

I have seen pain
     in the eyes of the bereaved
I have felt pain
    in the arms of their grief
I have held on tight
    praying for the love,
         the love,
              the love,
to rain down from above
     swirl from around
          burst up from below
               swallowing us up
                    for a moment of sweet relief.

And if nothing else
     that maybe
          just maybe
we find each other
     matter.
For, of course,
     we do,
          we always did.

For love knows no time
     no boundary
          no reason
for being present
now.

~Judy Morrill Young
     3/20/2011
     First Day of Spring


Namaste