Benediction

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Words

When Spoken

Blessings

Which reach back

and blanket

even the past...

Covering

Protecting

Painting red their night sky

Laying down with them in the dark

Whispering Comfort

Keeping Vigil

Resuscitating

When they're sure they've breathed their last...

Invocation sung softly

Succor for their solitary hour,

in which

as it happens,

they were never

really

alone...

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"I Am with you always"

-Matthew 28:20