<div dir="ltr">Oh Riantee, <div>what rawness and truth and so human and so beautiful. Thank you so much. It is like a blessing on our journey to that place.</div><div>With gratitude</div><div>Cornelia</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">His Last Breath</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">I was out with friends,</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">I came back home a few moments too late</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">to catch his last breath,</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">so I found my lifelong love</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">in a filial embrace</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">floating on a cloud of candles and flowers</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">wrapped in daughterly silence </p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">and I attempted to join him</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">on his flight</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">while his last breath still hung </p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none"><font color="#000000">in mid-air </font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none"><font color="#000000">but I stood frozen, </font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none"><font color="#000000">appalled at my negligence,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none"><font color="#000000">my sorrow slowly dissolving</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">in the distance he kept </p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">from the things of this world and its people</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">as for months</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">he kept attempting to give out</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">that </p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">last </p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none">breath.</p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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