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When the fabric of reality calls to reveal
All that is hidden barely underneath,
We gaze upon something of One who was—
Draped in creased, sterile, covering
Ablaze under the too-blue, shocking lights:
A piercing stillness,
Waves of anxious, tense jitters
All jockeying for our precious attention.
There is no contest:
That face—
Those eyes
Closed for what we call “all time”
Yet we see
How we are changed in one instant ~
“Before” was millennia ago.
The sheet covers only the flesh,
Never the soul.
With trembling knife poised,
We too open…
Into this moment of gentle, profound awareness
(No matter how many times it has been done before.)
Time slows into a single message:
To hear—to feel—to breathe—to be here.
We embark upon their story,
The essence of someOne
With life laid out before us, we know so little,
Only what they left behind, under this sheet.
Their greatest knowledge
Pours into our reflections of eternity,
We suddenly, finally, let ourselves understand
That the sums of all of us
Melt into one
In this sharing of mutual, deep time,
We trust and honor you:
The someOne that you were—and most certainly still are,
For you are the master
In what it means to be alive
Right here, just now, while being so different
On each side of the veil—yet together,
We treasure
Your guidance,
Your wisdom in teaching us that at some point,
We are all
someOne
…to Someone
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Skogen, M.G.R. someOne. J Med Humanit (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-024-09894-6
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