Making Descansos

Lately
When I go walking
Dogs and I
I walk to the nearby
Memorial Wall
whose simple message

calls my name

I stop by the wall
Made in memory of Robina Steiner
And read
words
that fill my heart with courage

to live on

It is by the memory wall that I find
the right words
to have inscribed
in my new ring
a band of eternal love
the only bridge
to that other world
where I can rest my heart

Leaning my Heart on your Soul