Live life, love life

We may think of departed loved ones at any time of the year, but the memories are often particularly poignant as we’re about to see in a new year with all its promise.

Words can console. Like music, poetry speaks to the soul, and reminds us we all share in the ‘human condition’ no matter what colour, creed or political or sociological persuasion.  

Our dear departed could be saying this:

‘I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep.

I want your ears still to hear the wind, I want you

To sniff the sea’s aroma that we loved together,

To continue to walk on the sand we walk on.

I want what I love to continue to live.’

- From 100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)

Open the door into a new year, and live life, love life.

Wishing all who read this a peaceful and healthy new year, 2018.