When a Loved One Departs, They leave more than they take……
1 min readFeb 6, 2019
When a loved one departs, they take with them a living artifact from our story.
The tales we once shared now have only a lone narrator. We are alone in our memory
With their departure our loved ones remove the living proof of the times that we had together.
They can no longer bear witness to the memories from where we stake meaning.
Those pieces of our perimeter are now forever submerged.
Our observance now lives in solitude.
Our beloved’s departure casts a veil of seclusion over vibrant memories that now dims the outer celebration of our life and time together.
But their absence in form also calls forth a fathomless recognition that more profoundly transverses our inner landscape.
They now more deeply embrace our soul.
