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"Gone From My Sight"

I share this in loving tribute to my parents, Jim and Audrey Ward ...  

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.   

Then someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!"  

"Gone where?"  

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.   

Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!" there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: "Here she comes!"  

And that is dying.  

(This is by Henry Van D-y-k-e and is printed in the booklet "Gone From My Sight - The Dying Experience, by Barbara Karnes, RN, which was given to me when my friend Selena was in a hospice years ago. ... Amara) (I had to type his last name this way otherwise the website blocks the word.)

Posted by Amara Ward
Thursday June 28, 2018 at 1:09 am
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