Monday, November 29, 2010

I Believe in Eternal Life

Greetings readers,

I wanted to write a little something from my memories and I want to account for the reason for my hope. To a dear friend, who has gone away for now, but I will hope to see in the afterlife.

I Believe in Eternal Life,
This is My Hope
For Without This Hope, the last week seems meaningless
For death seems to be an end
A loss which words cannot describe

Some call it an end
Some call it nonbeing
But this is not what I see
For I see hope, even in what seems like tragedy

Now of course, my phone won't ring every night
and I won't hear certain antics anymore
but I'll always have these memories
and people to share them with

And this shows me eternity
Because memories and feelings while they fade
They tell something of something greater
A world unseen, a glorious treasure

But to explain eternal life,
To explain eternal life itself,
is something no one can do
because no one can really see,
but we all can have hope,
because there is an unseen

The unseen is in you and me and all we see
The unseen is in how we all see different
but at the same time there is a whole
because we all love and we all die
these are the only experiences we all share

So for now, there's no more phone calls
no more "sup bitches"
no more cards, games, or movies,
but someday we'll play again
and we'll have community
not just you and me, but everybody
all who gathered will be together

but this is not the whole of eternal life
eternal life starts with how we act now
because this is our symbol of the world to be
in faith, hope, and charity

and this is the reason for my attempts to love
to live the experience of eternal life
to give love openly and freely
because this is the ideal of our friend
and I hope the ideal of us all.

May death be our guide to life
as we know nothing about death
and speculate about eternal life
therefore we must not judge
and when uncertain we love
and love deeply and always

So why don't you fill me up, fill me up
buttercup baby just to let me down,
may we be filled with more than we can imagine
from a source of compassion and mercy
more than I can give and more than I can be
Let me be this love and let me see it in the other
So I can live the eternal life I've glimpsed

Aristocrates