04/10/2025
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                                        A Love That Carries Us Forward
Our departed loved ones
remain with us still,
not in ways
we once knew or felt,
but in quiet, enduring ways,
in the love, the gentle strength
they leave behind.
Their love is a lantern
in the dark,
a steady pulse
within our chest,
reminding us
we are never truly alone,
even in grief.
Even in absence
they guide us,
softly, invisibly,
teaching us to endure,
to breathe,
to move forward.
For love does not end
when a life does;
it only changes shape,
becoming courage,
memory,
the strength
that holds us up
and carries us forward.
~ 'A Love That Carries Us Forward' by Spirit of a Hippie 
✍️ Mary Anne Byrne
~ Art 'She Rises from Ash and Memory' by Serin Alar Serin Alar