Sometimes you can see it…it’s just hovering and trying at every possibility to cascade over the unsuspecting, the distracted and the fragile…death it seems is always near and ready to take whatever souls it can consume regardless of circumstance and any other reasoning. It’s one of the most certain of fates for all of us…and still it startles us wide awake when it brushes by us for someone else…we breathe sighs of relief and then go about the business of sending those spirits onward…toward whatever fate reveals itself on that flip-side of our station. Those of us who remain are unsure how to take on new days until the pain of that special absence fades…until our hearts and promises resolve themselves…until we understand the bravery of every living breath we take. It seems such a peculiar certainty and I struggle with the notions of closure on a thing that is so uncertain…and I am compelled to be unsatisfied with the whole notion of death and chose to abhor it…not because it scares me, but because it is the absolute contradiction of life.
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Lawrence Lewis
“If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
About Lawrence Lewis
I do a number of things professionally...but most of all and the true purpose of what I do through "my work" is to provide for my family, be a good husband and great father, and try to make a difference as a world citizen...I guess it's not much more complicated than that 🙂