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Like the Butterfly
It fluttered there, above my head
Weightless in the soft breeze
I reached up my hand
It lit upon my finger
It looked at me for timeless moments
I smiled, reaching deep and
Finding all those cherished memories
As it flitted off through the sunlit mourn.
I knew we had said Hello once more.
Lezlie Langford, North Platte, Nebraska |
| Since early times, the butterfly has symbolized
renewed life. The caterpillar signifies life here on earth; the
cocoon death; and the butterfly, the emergence of the dead into
a new, beautiful and freer existence.
Many members of the Compassionate Friends embrace the butterfly
as a symbol—a sign of hope to them that their children
are living in another dimension with greater beauty and freedom.
MEMORY can only tell us what we were, in company with those
we loved; it cannot help us find what each of us alone must
now become. Yet no one is really alone: those who live no more,
echo still within our thought and words, and what they did
is part of what we have become.
The Gates of Prayer, Reform Judaism Prayer Book
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