In Memoriam: Jane Reilly Dibbell

William A. Cook

You left this earth once before –

          Only to return;

You were not done yet:

          More souls to know,

          More seeds to sow,

          More fears below

That needed purging,

Needed cleansing,

Needed resurrecting,

If they, like you, were to live again.

They called it remission,

          A seven year commission

          To bring life to those who lived,

          But did not know it.

Your commission a mission

          To expose the lie in shame,

          The veil that envy wears,

          The fear of being ridiculous,

A meaningless curse we hurl to destroy

          The freedom a soul has found

          In living with the end;

No longer a life hung between

          The unknown hour or the day.

I would you would return again.

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