A Holy Thing

A friend of mine’s uncle died on Sunday, the first time death has come close since the lockdown started. One loss touches so many others and even though I didn’t know him, it pierces so …

‘Tis a fearful thing

To love

What death can touch.

To love, to hope, to dream,

And oh, to lose.

A thing for fools, this,

Love,

But a holy thing,

To love what death can touch.

For your life has lived in me;

Your laugh once lifted me;

Your word was a gift to me.

To remember this brings painful joy.

‘Tis a human thing, love,

A holy thing,

To love

What death can touch.

Judah Halevi or Emanuel of Rome or Anonymous (variously attributed!)

Thinking of you Hannah and all who are grieving and losing loved ones.

Saccanama