The Soul's Embrace

I witnessed once an ancient soul's embrace

When death, the cancer, on my mother came.

It was a moment of unspoken grace

In this eternal, enigmatic game.

I gave her oxygen and when she cried

Injected Demerol to ease her pain

Then witnessed that which cannot be denied,

A miracle I may not see again.

Immobilized now as death steals in the room

She turns her head and love pours from her eyes,

Smile dispelling all the Shadow's gloom

Blesses my father and slowly, sweetly dies.

With her final breath a heavenly perfume nears

Filling the room; our hearts from sorrow cease

Banished is the spilth of human tears

For grief cannot exist within that peace.

No sound is heard, our human lips are sealed,

A meditative pause, by light possessed

The emotions of the heart now swiftly yield

To wonder as her soul each soul has blessed.