Electric Tethers

For that love tethers us to the truth, whether that is god, or the celestial dance of starlight throughout the galaxies…

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I know that the world was a better place with you in it.
Does that mean that whatever is waiting for us,
when our feet no longer tread on this sphere
is that much brighter and magnificent?

Is it beyond our comprehension
not only because of the limits
of our fragile and mortal minds,
but more so by the fact that it called you there
-whether “home”
-or the next great adventure…

You, who already made an impact for so many souls
-both human and animal,
-lost and found
in our own dream-like realm.

When we meet again, will it be like waking from a dream,
one where the places were familiar but not quite the same?
Will everything finally be right again?
Will it all make sense?

But even in dreams our love was never lost,
not in dreams, nor in pain, nor even in the…