For Sharon

She graces our lives

with her flaming hair

her even brighter smile

her compassion that seems

to have no end

she loves everyone

truely

if there were a saint

Sharon

would be that person

 

a saint knows (thank you Hafiz)

that in the 

chess game of live

God makes amazing moves

 

and 

as life happens

can only

burst out in laughter

and say

"I surrender"

and leave it up to God

Sharon is such a soul

a 

saint

and I do not use that term lightly

cancer 

has become a part of my dear friends reality

and yet

cancer

does not define her

she is still

the smiling 

laughing

compassion

loving

soul she always way

 

Sharon is Sharon

and because she

is

I have hope

not only for Sharon

but for each of us

 

Sharon is

grace

 

personified