Phillip Michael Sawatzky - Whirling

I saw your dimming
light leave the body
terrible cold stillness
in the shadowed valley
stifling your last breaths

I missed your beaming
joyful emergence
beyond the mystic veil
a dancer turns radiantly
whirling to another world
2006

Phillip Michael Sawatzky

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