Don't

 by Darnell Benally

DON'T DIE WITH YOUR DEAD

Did you know that when you cry for your dead, you

cry for you and not them?

You cry because you "lost them," because you don't

HAVE THEM by your side. You think it all ends in

death. And you think they are NOT anymore.

So if your dead are gone, where are they?

Yes they have left, or they are now in another place.

Is that place better than this?

Yes, definitely that place is better than this, so why

do you suffer for their departure?

When you have finished accepting that they are no 

longer "NOT here", but they are still in another place

even better than this, for where they are they are no

longer sick or suffering.

Then you'll stop mourning them and you'll get them

back in memory so they keep accompanying you with 

the joy of all that you've lived.

If you truly loved them, LOVE them AGAIN and this 

time with greater strength, with greater purity, with

greater delivery.

Today, there will be no more reproach of any kind.

Only LOVE, will be the essence between you,

between us, between them.

I respect your pain, and the way you express it. I

know you cry and you will cry without comfort.

But...today I say to you:

Don't die with your dead.

Remember we are only seeing one side of the coin.

We are not looking the other way, we are not seeing

the wonderful place where they stand.

What if we start seeing "death" as a Second Birth?

Second Birth we ALL go through.

Don't die with your dead. Honor them by living your

life as they would have wanted you to, let them

transcend. And you keep living.