ALL SOULS DAY AGAIN
Poem for Monday - November 3, 2014
ON PASSING A
GRAVEYARD
May perpetual
light shine upon
The faces of all
who rest here.
May the lives they
lived
Unfold further in
spirit.
May all their past
travail
Find ease in the
kindness of clay.
May the
remembering earth
Mind every memory
they brought.
May the rains from
the heavens
Fall gently upon
them.
May the
wildflowers and grasses
Whisper their
wishes into light.
May we reverence
the village of presence
In the stillness
of this silent field.
© John O’Donohue,
Pages 113, in
Benedictus,
A Book of Blessings
Bantam Press, London
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