Living Zen Life

I have written of my wife's death 
her last days moments words.
What I have found difficult to write
was the grace with which she met her end.
Her deep reservoir of inner strength
for which her faith had prepared her
shown clearly in her face her words
her calm acceptance of the ultimate injustice -
"It's not fair! Why me?" 
These words were unspoken by her
such was not her way.
In her dying moments she was lucid
exhibiting no anger anxiety fear
only a calm awareness that her end was near.
She said to us, "I love you all."
and at the very end, "goodbye."

In those moments she gave us a gift 
only one on the liminal edge of life and death can give -
relief from our own fears of suffering and death.
She took our anxieties with her
leaving us with profound astonishment
at how she whom we knew and loved
could bear so well
what we fear so much.