My Death Chant

My Death Chant:

I have a death chant.
You have a death chant.
We all have a death chant.

It is the song we sing, when death comes to us.

It is sweet, sad, like looking across the depth of your life,
all the faces, the eyes, the hearts, and knowing that
there is a final goodbye.

It is terrible and beautiful, like Golgotha, the place of the skull.

It is the joy and sorrow of the world.

It is the deep silence, the stillness, as each word, each sound, each moment of our lives
sink into the marrow of our souls.

But I have a death chant.
You have a death chant,
We all have a death chant.

Listen for yours. It is the music
that can carry you into your grave
across the dark skies,
to the other side.

The words, the songs, are pathways.

Use your death chant.

When you are broken. When you have no hope. When you feel like this is your last stand,
your last day, your last dream.

When you are shredded by life,
use your death chant, let it be your strength, your power, to take
one step more.

It is the summation of all that you find beautiful in this world.

All that your heart, your eyes, your ears, your soul has feasted on.

My death chant is my gift to the universe.

It is my Soul.

It is my Self.

And I will bring this gift to Spirit, when I pass on,

but before I go, before I leave this world...

I give my death chant to you.