Beloved Mary Helen – In Memoriam

I held her dying in my helpless arms,

Powerless and impotent to save

And called upon her spirit heaven's balms.

My human love such as it is I gave

And every prayer addressing Him I said,

To light the pathway to her rest and peace

And bless this cherished soul on Death's grey bed

And from the body's temple grant release;

But mostly prayers of the heart's gratitude.

Aware that she was in a state of grace,

This moment of life's final interlude

That every soul now born on earth must face.

I think of the more I might have been and done

Unworthy of the love embracing me

This aura brighter than earth's blazing sun,

Light of infinite tranquillity.

As fragrance lingers in the fallen rose

So too life's sweetness lingers in the air,

And by the Mother's grace we hold it close,

Know death an instant in the soul's affair

With God as goal and secret paramour.

Our psychic being chooses time and date

Accepts the destined stroke, the final hour

And on eternal love does meditate.