Living Zen Life

I cannot know or say 
what Carol experienced
as death came to her
difficult to imagine
life to life transfigured.

We were with her 
helping her on her way
as best we could
as our living room 
became holy ground

She lay in her hospice bed
suspended in the liminal
between life and death
time without meaning
being without relevance

She had begun to witness 
sublime unfolding mysteries
around her in her
we watching as she 
moved to a door opening only to her.

There is a moment when life 
realizes it need not be 
allows itself to be subsumed 
into profound reaches
stretching beyond infinity borders...

...then leaps, carefree!

I think that's what she did
looking back then ahead
saying goodbye
flawless leaping in grand jeté 
onto a stage far and far away.