TO DEATH ~ A meditation

I did this meditation at the peak of my medical emergency, the day before I was admitted to hospital
You are close
You are a friend
You are darkness
Within You is a light
You are whispering
You float, whispily
You are attractive
You are a seducer
When the body does not work you are a relief
You save us from decrepitude as Aphrodite did not grant eternal life to Anchises
You took my mother
You took my father
Soon, my friend, when the time is right, You can have me too
Their deaths were as different as their characters, but you took them both just the same.
You took my grandfather in the post office
You took my grandmother in hospital
You took my other grandfather to relieve him of the wounds of war
You took my grandmother, his wife, so that she could be with him
You are looking after them all in different ways
You are greatly prosperous
You are Plouton and Persephone
You are an angel on high
You are in the deepest depths
You are at hand
You are support & reassurance
I think mother is still in Your realm
I think father was looking for something and has probably gone on - I hope he finds it
You are a blank
You are beyond the blank
You are now and now and now
You are always around
Buddha had You always around - you two had many conversations
The Desert fathers also
You are a practice
To meditate is to approach You
Die before you die so that you may live while you are still able
Many cannot really die because they nevier really lived
You are a cup of tea
You are rain and sunshine
You are winter
You are summer
We are mortal
That is best
Precious human rebirth
You are a good sleep
Sometimes You are exactly what I need
Somebody joked that one has to die every so often in order to get off all your committees
You are a disengaging
You are liberation
You are a friend
You are the one great matter
Patacara extinguished the lamp and the great dark was split apart
You are beyond our ken
You demonstrate our limit just as life does
The only understanding
You are a wind that blows up out of nowhere
You know Your own way
You are nembutsu, life too
You are in league with the Always-Everywhere
The sun sets and rises again
Namo Amida Bu
Now I am quiet.
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