Another Day

I woke up and was met with my fateful day

Death came to me with soft approach

He called to me with comforting grace

I felt soothed and warmed by his beckoning

But a pang rang through my soul

A longing of which I didn’t wish to let go

How could I leave my love behind?

How could I depart from this world and leave her?

I stuttered in my gliding approach to death

My wits came back to me

His presence faltered

“Let me have another day. One to say goodbye.

One to get affairs in order. To lessen the tears in her eyes.”

He gave me a pregnant pause

And to my surprise, turned away and vanished

Another day

Why is this one different from the others?

Why choose to do anything another way?

Why bother with the mundane and meaningless?

Why settle for the moments that consume rather than nourish?

Why take when I can give?

Why let my heart be contented to less than my desiring?

This life is a gift

A blessing I’m undeserving of

My unworthiness is only paralleled by my ignorance of this

I take it for granted daily

I don’t hold tight to the moments of infinite possibilities

To the calling for greater things beyond me

I let moments slip by, and drift into vapor

Forgetting that I too am like dew in the morning sun

It is all a fleeting existence, and still…

Still I let the moments drag on with no action

I let them come and go like the breeze

My lack of awareness stills me into inertia

I pray the Spirit of Truth will awaken me

Take my heart and mind to a new level

Take my soul to a space of invigoration

Break the shackles of limitation and ignorance

Bring love into every fiber of the tapestry of my existence

I am here to receive, please help me to be able to

And so, I found my love

And I did not tell her of my encounter with death

Instead, we lived

We felt it all and danced on the glitter of the stars shining down to Earth

We rejoiced in the ever present Love that is shown to us

We submerged and washed away the sins of our past

We took flight with our hearts and soared into our new lives

And then we laid under the blanket of the heavens above

And drifted off into blissful sleep

I woke up and was met again by death

My final day had past

Yet, when we met there was an unspoken truth

I told him “I want another day.”

And he turned away and vanished