Poems of Narad

Beloved Mary Helen - In Memoriam

I held her dying in my helpless arms,
Powerless and impotent to save
And called upon her spirit heaven's balms.
My human love such as it is I gave

And every prayer addressing Him I said,
To light the pathway to her rest and peace
And bless this cherished soul on Death's grey bed
And from the body's temple grant release;

But mostly prayers of the heart's gratitude.
Aware that she was in a state of grace,
This moment of life's final interlude
That every soul now born on earth must face.

I think of the more I might have been and done
Unworthy of the love embracing me
This aura brighter than earth's blazing sun,
Light of infinite tranquillity.

As fragrance lingers in the fallen rose
So too life's sweetness lingers in the air,
And by the Mother's grace we hold it close,
Know death an instant in the soul's affair

With God as goal and secret paramour.
Our psychic being chooses time and date
Accepts the destined stroke, the final hour
And on eternal love does meditate.