We Who Will Remember

For my friend Sarah who lost her loving, kind, generous, beautiful mom, Cindy, to ovarian cancer.


Come new day
Come find us in a place without pain
Without grief
Without death
Where we need never bury those we love
Will you find us there?

Come bright sun
Come shine on a port of morrow
Without regret
Without loss
Where there's no need to speak the word 'cancer'
Will you help us there?

Come ocean swells
Come rise and crash and glimmer
With strength
With hope
With overwhelming power and healing and love
Will you bring us there?

Come oh life
Come sorrow and confusion and wonder
With joy
With remembrance
Where we will carry on, carry on, carry on

We are here
We are here
We are hopeful
We are the ones who will remember
We are weighted full of sadness, yet
We are rising, full of light