Blessed Repose Many Years

 ‘Blessed Repose,Many Years’ Trgates, 6/17/2025

heaven’s grace,
hades prays the same
ashes in an urn,
corpses cuddled in a casket,
unlike well intentioned 
“that’s not really them,”
sorry, this is certainly part of them. 
far from our eyes
never from our sinew’s grasping 
the Milky Way knows well,
as the Son’s Emmaus stroll reminds 
in time, or with another’s lenses 
seeing usually takes 
a walk together until we’re 
hand in hand. 
wiping stardust from our eyes,
poetry and psalms 
open windows beyond the firmaments,
“they may not come to me,
yet I shall go to to them.”
once we said hello. 
to many we’ve said goodbye. 
in due time
both will nod to us.