Deathlessness: 60 Poems of Temporal Death and Everlasting Life

Death touches everyone and leaves no life untouched. We can elude it for a time, postpone it for many a while and sometimes even pretend it does not exist. But it touches us even when its grim icy fingers fall upon another. And those whom it touches leave behind them the memories of who they were. Our love for them is what we remember. Our hope and faith that they continue on after death is what we pray for. For no one gets out of life alive. Yet new life can and does await each of us! At least that is what this poet believes.

Deathlessness is about experiencing life's many travails and death itself, and suffering the aftermath of those we lose to death. Grief and sorrow are two of its byproducts. But so can be strength and courage, and renewed hope in the deathlessness of the human soul! This is also about the loss of faith and hope and other great human qualities. But likewise, about finding new faith and new hope and all that make us more than human. They are the qualities of kindness and charity and compassion, and goodness and love. These things too, survive death!

To those who never give up, who fight the good battle, who seek goodness and love and to make the world a better place, while embracing the spirituality that is life, I assign this book to reading. May it make you sense and confront the sublime and the terrible that is sometimes life. And death. But may it also inspire you to embrace the profound and the reverent that is the deathlessness of the human soul and spirit, and all that's right with the world.