I'm Riding For

Bogdan

Bogdan, my beautiful baby, today, as every day, I am wrapping you with love in my heart, my mind, and my soul. As always, words fall short. But your memory is always bright and vibrant, always safe within me. Rest in peace my love, Mom "If I be the first of us to die, Let grief not blacken long your sky. Be bold yet modest in your grieving. There is a change but not a leaving. For just as death is part of life, The dead live on forever in the living ... So when you walk where once we walked together And scan in vain the dappled bank beside you for my shadow, Or pause where we always did upon the hill to gaze across the land, And spotting something, reach by habit for my hand, And finding none, feel sorrow start to steal upon you, Be still. Close your eyes. Breathe. Listen for my footfall in your heart. I am not gone but merely walk within you."