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It Is Time

There is no right way
To let you leave
Or to say goodbye
So I will have to let you go
And listen
To your heartbeats slow
I can feel you longing
To travel along that last road
Go now
Run then
Towards the light
To the one you always loved
The one you would always know
Shed no more tears
In passing
Leave the grief behind
Don’t stop beloved
Move into a time
That flows

As we move into Monday and the day of the Queen’s State Funeral in my country, I am sure that for a lot of people it will be a day of emotion and memories. I will be watching as a mark of respect. Inevitably, I know that it will bring back memories of times with my family as I grew up; I have not known a time without her on the throne. So in a sense, I feel as though I am saying goodbye to part of my history too.

Watching any funeral brings back memories of occasions where you might have recently attended one yourself. And I am sure, that is very much the case at the moment, after a particularly difficult few years in our collective history. For me, this is certainly the case, as one of the funerals I have attended was my mother’s in 2019, and my uncle’s a year later, just before the pandemic.

I was lucky enough, and I say lucky, because a lot of people did not have this privilege during the pandemic to be with their loved ones in their final moments, but I was lucky enough to be with my mother when she died. I saw pain and grief leave, and I saw her return to the beautiful woman she once was. And I knew she had found her way home.
It is never easy to talk about these things, but I am sharing this work today for anybody else who might need it.

This image was taken on the road to Litlington in East Sussex, UK, and is one of my most favourite places to be.

With this image you might like to listen to Hans Zimmer and his piece ‘Time’. I often listen to music when I am writing, and in this case, the words came as I was listening to it.

youtu.be/c56t7upa8Bk

And if you would like to see more of my images and poetry have a look at my website:

www.shelleyturnerpoetpix.com

Taken on: May 20, 2015

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