Leap Into the Void - Jack Falanga 2007
On Hearing The News
So many feelings, whirling around my head, my heart…
Few thoughts, just the emptiness of being replaced
I don’t want to feel this way,
I know this IS what was planned
This is the path that was charted for all of us
I knew change was coming
Yet I am sad
What a task you set Holy One
That I love and then move on
How am I supposed to DO that?
How often would you ask THAT of me?
You have given me an open and loving heart
This heart that hurts, it is your GIFT to me?
Yet it is, I know it is
It is so much of what makes me Who I Am
Over and over I have loved
Through my life loved with that BIG love you give me
Love and then let go
Moved on, loved more
I’m not sure I can do this.
I exclaim on paper with my arms folded defiantly across my chest
A pout pushes my bottom lip out
Then I sigh
I’m not sure that I can NOT do this
This is Who I Am… this open hearted, arms wide open
Leaping into the void, trusting to be caught Spirit
So, here I come once again Lord
One more leap, one more jump, one more step…
I’m yours, do with me what you will.
Tsunamisue's Blog 
All love is degrees of moving on, dearest. Sometimes I think what’s hardest is not being allowed to choose the degree. You and I are very alike in this, incapable of loving less than whole-heartedly. It is a strength and a vulnerability both, and what has driven both of us to become more than what we were. Go ahead and pout if you need to, but don’t forget that this is also one of the graces of your spirit. Loving abundantly makes you abundantly loved.
M