May you remember

May you remember.

May you remember the first smile of the day

(Perhaps it was accidental -

The sunshine in the window,

A stranger’s unlikely hairdo,

A father chasing his child’s bicycle

Tie flapping in the wind:

frazzled beauty.)

May you remember

The flowers of spring time

The dark roots of fall

The dreams of the winter time

When you dug into the dark deep

We have so much information.

May you remember

Meaning.

Each email each phone call each misrepresentation

There is no thingieness there

No screeching physical pain

Just the virtual – mind – immortality – space

But it is this mortality

This limitation of body and mind and spirit

That we must remember

May you remember your own death

Before you forget to live.

May you remember

Your immortality

In others and others and others

Who reflect and learn from you

Networks that may actually include humanity

You will never know not really

What you leave -

May you remember

That you are not your archives

Not your photo albums

Face books, journals, emails, music collection, books

Pants, paper, pens, google-books

May you remember

your very first name

Before all the others:

Precious Creation.

Beloved.