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New Beginnings
Posted on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
I just returned from Sedona, AZ. While there, I visited the site where our family gathered to scatter the ashes of my spouse five years ago. Here is the poem I wrote to commemorate this occasion.
“New Beginnings”
Alone he walks a path –
Dusty red rock
Through Juniper pine
Winding upward for a mile,
Blast furnace heat envelops
As he ascends further
White rose tipped-red in hand
Where Kachina Woman* waits
In supplication and prayer,
Standing upon burnt shale,
A carpet of tears it seems;
He sits in her shadow
Recalls years ago
When he let loose in sadness
Love’s ashes to the breeze
To honor life’s transition.
Now upon a gnarled mesquite
Clinging tenaciously
To the barren surface
Patient for the rain,
He releases rose petals
With care – deliberately
In reflection of life –
A love now passed.
After a time he rises
Retraces his steps
Returns to where it began –
A place of new beginnings.
*A red rock spire so named near Boynton Canyon outside of Sedona, AZ
