A Sacred Keep
©2024 Susan Noyes Anderson
It’s not that you’re more present here,
for you are present everywhere.
I feel you in the warming sun;
the rising trees; the crisp, clean air.
Yet this safe ground, your place of rest,
surrounds my soul in comfort deep.
This refuge, framed in oak and redwood,
holds you in a sacred keep.
My heart is grateful you abide
in beauty among friends we love,
your body reverenced till the day
it flies, free as a morning dove
and, reuniting with your spirit,
lives as an eternal soul.
Forever saved, forever loved,
forever ours, restored and whole.
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If you relate to this poem, you might also enjoy reading Reflections on Reunion,
Tags: cemetery, death, grave, hope, peace, resurrection
Susan Noyes Anderson
Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.