Death Relates

unrelated but death relates she lies there like she is asleep death - where the first and last experiences come face to face spilling a bag of grief both ways somehow this seventy something still rediates life that draws one's endearment a small Chinese woman in the mortuary waiting to be washed in that neat posture, soft expression and delicate features of a caring person she must have loved children you can see it in her death manner if there is any manner lesson to be taken this is one that last best wish for her grandchildren probably - shines through her the years of caring for the young ones so much love must have flowed from her that even at her last, she laid out herself elegantly to express her best wish the world could not but stop to give her some grateful thoughts and i did and i know too soon there will be sobs, tears and the same wish since first death struck - that she will be back and of course, the midnight tear choking dreams