Nothing has been broken

Nothing has been broken 
Though the links in the chains that bind us have been loosened
The final words spoken
Filing saws deftly cutting.

I saw in your deep blue eyes
Oceans of wisdom 
Understanding from a thousand lives
A link to the heart  that lives but cries.

Your soulful  paintings
Spoke a million kaleidoscopic words 
To open  hearts
And eyes that heard.

You passed onto pastures new
From where you take in a different view
Of starry heavens
Worlds you  knew.

Back on this Earth 
Time quickly passed by
Children  all grown in the blink of an eye
Next generations now birthed 

I thought  of you today 
Your Spirit flying free
But ever living on
In the thoughts of those like me

This Earth had brought you pain
Your final moments were a joyful refrain
To leave your pain wracked shell
And exit Earth for Heaven not Hell.

Nothing has been broken 
Though the links in the chain that bind us  have been loosened 
Your memory  lives on in my beating heart
And as long as it beats we'll never be truly apart.