Requiem for my Love

Gaye and I in Prague

Two years ago today, this world became less Gaye.
I pray everyday that Heaven became more Translucent.
 
The below passage is from, "Man's Search for Meaning."
The book is written by Viktor Frankl,
who spent time in four different concentration
camps during the Holocaust.
While he survived,
he lost his parents, brother and pregnant wife.  
In the midst of extreme suffering,
Viktor found meaning through the love of his wife.

 "... for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth -- that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved... My mind still clung to the image of my wife. I didn't know if she was still alive. I knew only one thing: Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.  It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self...nothing could touch the strength of my love, my thoughts, and the image of my beloved. Had I known then that my wife was dead, I think that I would still have given myself, undisturbed by that knowledge, to the contemplation of her image, and that mental conversation with her would have been just as vivid and just as satisfying... Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death."

- Love is as strong as Death -
What a powerful Passage!

When everything is dark - when I am surrounded by sadness,

I will find salvation in the remembered love of Gaye and I.

A love that is a living force that sustains me in the present.

Through memory,

 love transcends time and death

and offers hope for my life.

Indeed, part of the pain now

was part of the happiness then.

I wouldn't trade my pain, my sadness, my loneliness

for all the treasures in the world

if it meant removing the source (Gaye)

That deal is non-negotiable.....

My pain, My sadness, My loneliness
Can't match the strength of Love.

Through Gaye, I too have found
meaning.

A Bittersweet Blessing....