Denial

[Elaine Mansfield]

Love ends in loss for the ones left behind

And grief is a natural response to losing what we've cherished

But when I stood at the threshold of death, I felt something vast and ungullible

So far beyond my ordinary sense of self

Opening to that mystery was humbling

It made me a little wiser and a little more realistic about our precarious human situation

When I pause to remember someone I've lost, grief is right there

But as the 13th century poet Rumi says: The wound is the place where the light enters you