A Light

The root of my life

Is faith

To mom

And dad

And my family

And friends

Though some of you passed

You ground my life

My breath

And action

I cry

Sometimes in fear

In loneliness

And loss

In death and the breadth

Of hurt in my heart

Since you are far

Away in death or in distance

That darkness lurks

Somewhere outside me

And sometimes in

But I remember

you made me

To fly

To be a light

In this world

And to be

My best self

So I shall be

And remember

What you see

A light

Of love

In this life