Good day for a funeral

It has been a weekend for funerals. Yesterday we berried our beloved Maia in the garden, and this morning is my uncles funeral in Pretoria. This is my dad's brother who passed away this week. The latter makes me very anxious, because its the second of my dad's siblings to pass away in this year....well you get it. I am going up to Johannesburg in two weeks time, so will be seeing them again. Sometimes I do curse Cape Town for being so far from my family.

Time

Father time rides the night

with Death on his back

waiting for the nod

to take the one we love.

Its sad to loose someone

but even worse for someone else

the feeling of wonder

of when the loss is closer.

Time waits for no man,

but also no woman.

Time flies,

but sometimes too fast.

Time runs out for us all. Its the waiting, and the wondering,

of when its gonna catch up to my loved ones that gets me down.

Dying of a broken heart

There is a couple in my church that had been married for over 60 years. They had a son, who is now living in New Zealand, and lived a really nice life. They had been in our church for over 40 years. Koot and Rita Taite. In the beginning of this year, oom Koot passed away from cancer, and today in church we were told that his wife, aunt Rita, passed away this week. This made me think about how people always speak of couples who die within a few months of each other because they cant live without each other.


I thought about this the whole day and finally understand why this happens. Imagine if you would, for your first 18 years of your life, you look for that perfect partner, and then you find them, and spend the next 60 years with just this person, building on a life with this person. No wonder after 60 years, when this person passes away, you are at such a loss and you feel so empty that you do nothing but die faster to be with them again. When they are gone, you have nothing to live for, because not only has the past 60 years of your life consisted of being with, living for and being part of this person, but for the past 6 months, you have taken care of and watched the one person you love more than life, die.

What an amazing feeling of oneness and loving and being loved. The whole world should feel like that.