Those who cannot be lost

May you know that absence is full of tender presence and

that nothing is ever lost or forgotten.

May the absence in your life be full of eternal echo.

                                                          John O’Donohue, Eternal Echoes

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there are empty places

in my soul

where people were

once alive

now gone

once close

now distant

people I loved

people who loved me

loneliness

echoes in the spaces

where warmth

and love once lived

and yet hallowed

presence remains

ghostly wraiths

of moments captured

touches remembered

of faces

and smiles

eternal echoes

of those

who cannot be lost

to

the

heart

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For all the Saints, Who from their labors rest