It was quite an adjustment for me to make
in fact it's still in progress
coming to the realization that we hold life too tightly
both people and times
when you reach the age I am
you will have lost more than you hold
no matter how tightly
it was simply their turn
no other explanation will fit
abandon rhyme or reason
it has no place anymore
abandon what you believe
if it doesn't line up with reality
they can be full of days or a child
but the end is just as sure
impersonal and quick
even if they lingered
and we think we were expecting it
death comes and goes in its own time
and by the time we know it has visited
it is finished
and hurrying off to its next appointment
try not to take it personally
as crazy as it sounds
It was never about us
and it was never about them
if there is a center to the universe
it apparently isn't man