Category: Gratitude/Appreciation

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This Patient’s Dilema

This Patient’s Dilema
the powerful medicine
distorts his reality
what helps him or hampers
in this form of duality?
sometimes back to the basics
where simplicity rules
gives relief from the chemicals
with side effects sometimes cruel
meditation and prayer
offered to end
this patient’s own suffering
on us he depends
a prayer for happiness
a prayer for peace
a prayer for friendship
and all suffering released
a prayer to release
all past that has harmed him
an envisioning of a future
where he is in charge again
gratitude for the opportunity
to serve on his journey
let us surrender to love
and all of his yearnings
may this patient be well
and honoured for his courage
may love be the answer
may he not be discouraged
and is there still more
what can we offer?
good humour and gentleness
simple nutrition, ample water
socializing, exercising
and our heart-centred belief
the power of love
will soon bring him relief
gagi     07/24/16
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Password to Death

Password to Death
the password to death is giving up
and sometimes its a gentle surrender up
there is a resistance to discuss or write about death
yet its eminence is as near as our last breath
if a plant starts to whither and to wilt
its life is nurtured by attention, not by guilt
we sit in a room, aware it’s full of belongings
do the plants and the books also not have longings?
the attention we give to all with which we live
nurtures a relationship and the importance of to give
to live a full life with no regrets
is a life full of love and what love begets
to simply be noticed and appreciated as is
gives a sense of belonging and that ’tis
the gift of the living, to love and be loved
to appreciate the beauty and the connections thereof
splendid is life, let us live it as though
every opportunity to love gifts an opportunity to sow
the gift of receiving and the feeling of being seen
so that all who meet death
will understand what life
what their life
did mean
gagi      06/19/16