Retrospect...

 

Retrospect drives truth-pangs through the heart

Today we love; tomorrow we may part

First’s are life-hallmarks; charted and prized

‘Lasts’ slip by, easily unrecognized

Retrospect strums soul-strings tenderly

Calling to moments tossed, lost to time’s sea

‘Now’ fills my palm urging me from my thought

Lest I miss ‘the something’ this morsel besought

Retrospect trembles in visions aloft

Double-edged grace; inexorable waft

Startling the drifter to reality

How quickly an hour fades to history

© Janet Martin

Salome passed away early on Saturday morning.(for the past year she was in a long-term care facility due to increased care needs) Everyone's favorite aunt is finally with Jesus. Death brings retrospect...She will be laid to rest tomorrow morning.No more Down's Syndrome, no more Alzheimer, and all Jesus and her momma and papa!