Kindred Spirits Poem by Sarah L. Johnsen

Your flower garden is in bloom again.
Hummingbirds and butterflies wing to and fro.
The world is young and full of hope again
And you are with me where ever I go.

The first time I saw you I cried.
I felt we had met somewhere before.
In the light, two old friends once denied
Were—with mercy— together, once more.

Mysteries of life are very strange;
But truth in the universe is set.
With dogma, we fret, change and rearrange.
What wisdom did we know and then forget?

In a special time, not so long ago
Your spirit and your sparkle charged the air.
You would appear and everyone would know
You were energy, with sunbeams in your hair.

The world will never be the same again.
For a while I'll cry for me; and then
I'll smile and know for all eternity—
I have your love, and we shall meet again.

(April 4, 2004)
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