Thanks for the poem, Penny. That must have been terribly hard for you. I do not think that death must always come as an enemy to life, as Dylan indicates. Often death is the completion, and comes as a kind of balm to the suffering body. We who are steeped in the now of this life tend to view death short-sightedly, we witness the sadness and ceremony of what comes after and we abhor it. But the people who have been close to me and now are gone from this world are still a big part of my life, and I do believe that their spirits go on.

LEJ