Challenging Times

The challenge came when the ones
I lost were no longer there for me,
It was an end to their suffering,
but they had gone on- without me.
I sat and cried and tried to see
the reason and sense of it all,
then just as I was giving up
I seemed to hear a call.
It was then I realised life goes on,
and was a gift for me.
A gift of love, the choice was mine,
in that I knew I was free.
To use what talents and gifts I had,
to give to all around,
we all are joined in this gift of life,
our lives together bound.
When out of love I give to you,
and you do the same for me,
we are part of the love
flowing from God to all humanity.