Let Them See Death

Let them see death.

Let the children see death.

Don’t just let them see death,

show them death – with intention.

Take them to death. Take them to the loved one.

Kiss and hug and love death,

touch and massage and cut hair at death,

lay flowers, sing a song, share a story at death,

stroke and comfort and be, at death.

Let the children see death.

Don’t just let them see death.

Show them death – with intention.

Show them loss and love,

permanence and impermanence,

sorrow, fear, confusion, forgiveness.

Let them see death;

the slowing, the sleeping, the tears,

the pain, the suffering, the fragility,

the vulnerability, the resistance, the surrrender,

let the children see death.

Let the children see death.

Let the children see death,

and life and love and love and life and living and longing and death.

let the children see death,

please,

show the children death.