The Rose Beyond the Wall

A lot has happened in 3 months. 

I have said lot of prayers, we had done a lot of waiting, suffered a lot of heartache, had our share of ups and downs and so many lives have been lost. We have been touched in one way or another by so many deaths. People we know, family of people we know, people of our community that we didn't know and people that were near and dear to us.

I have been 'taking' all of this change in and trying to wrap my mind around so many things... but I am coming around. I am beginning to feel my life and writing come back, and I will be posting again in some sense of regularity finally.

Today, I want to share a poem that goes through my mind every time we lose someone we love or hear of someone losing a loved one. 

I write poetry, but I didn't write this. 

However, it touches my heart like no other. 

Notice at the bottom that I changed the color 

of the part that reminds me

that life goes on even though we can no longer see it.

Read that part twice.  

The Rose Beyond the Wall

Near a shady wall a rose once grew,
Budded and blossomed in God's free light,
Watered and fed by the morning dew,
Shedding it's sweetness day and night.

As it grew and blossomed fair and tall,
Slowly rising to loftier height,
It came to a crevice in the wall
Through which there shone a beam of light.

Onward it crept with added strength
With never a thought of fear or pride,
It followed the light through the crevice's length
And unfolded itself on the other side.

The light, the dew, the broadening view
Were found the same as they were before,
And it lost itself in beauties new,
Breathing it's fragrance more and more.

Shall claim of death cause us to grieve
And make our courage faint and fall?
Nay! Let us faith and hope receive--
The rose still grows beyond the wall, 

Scattering fragrance far and wide
Just as it did in days of yore,
Just as it did on the other side,
Just as it will forevermore.

~ A. L. Frink ~

If you are here, chances are it is because I love you.

And even if you don't know me
 You have probably lost someone you love.

Stay strong and always remember 

our roses bloom beyond that wall.

I hope this was a hug for you.