For Kaye

Recognise your sorrow, mourn your grief, but
Do not regret my passing, nor seek to keep me from my journey on.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one,
So I return, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean.

And what shall I leave you, my good friends? I, who have neither gold nor silver,
Leave you those jeweled times when we laughed together,
The moments shared as our friendship grew.

And what shall I leave you, my children? You, whom I conceived in love and bore in pride,

shall take me in your hearts even as I have held you in mine.
Look with joy at those times when our togetherness was our delight
And our delight was our fulfillment.

And you, my beloved, what treasure have I for you? For we were born together and together we shall be forever more. How can we be parted, we, whose roots are so entwined. The memories of those moments when our souls met and explored each others boundaries. The waking of that love which lay, dormant and asleep, between us since time began. These things I leave to you. That moment in our dawning, our togetherness, when our love outshone the sun and bathed us in its warmth.