The news came to our computer last night of a parting
Goodbye will not happen
What will?
Memorials to charities, money for flowers
Words to encourage those who remain
Travel to the place of final rest and burial
Or grief apart
Some will see the news later and reflect
Around 6.7 billion people are alive now
Estimates say 100 billion or so have lived on earth
One person’s death is small news universe-wide
The same for births
Each death or birth is like a penny to a billionaire
No big loss, no big gain
Not something to bend over and pick up
Unless it’s heads and good luck is the idea
Consider the power of human courage and imagination
To construct profound attachment
To a few grains on a wide shore
Who has the largest number of friends on facebook?
Some have hundreds
Even if they track them all
Their knowledge of each will not be intimate
The death of a friend with whom we have lost contact
Is the loss of the possibility of new memories…
Impermanence enhanced
Joy is from this moment alone
The past is not only gone
It is going now
As you mourn
Dear friends
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