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Absence

May you know that absence is alive
with hidden presence,
that nothing is ever lost or forgotten.

May the absences in your life
grow full of eternal echo.

May you sense around you the secret Elsewhere
where the presences that have left you dwell.

May you be generous in your embrace of loss.
May the sore well of grief turn into
a seamless flow of presence.

May your compassion reach out
to the ones we never hear from.

May you have the courage
to speak for the excluded ones.

May you become the gracious and
passionate subject of your own life.

May you not disrespect your mystery
through brittle words or false belonging.

May you be embraced by God
in whom dawn and twilight are one.

May your longing inhabit
its dreams within the Great Belonging.

By
John O’Donohue
1956-2008