THE OTHER SIDE

The Other Side

(Inspired by my mother, Nadean McNutt, who is waiting on the other side)

Many, many years ago or was it just the blink of an eye,

Plans were made for a trip that starts with a baby’s cry.

Through dimensions from a portal descending in a slide,

Light to dark, dark to light, she arrives from the other side.

The learning starts with baby steps and things that are small.

The learning grows and takes her higher as she becomes tall.

Life is about living, loving, and learning, so she must decide

What she’s going to do with this life now that she’s here from the other side.

A mother to me and a mother to more.

A mother to a total of one plus four.

She tried to live life and do what she should.

She tried to help others whenever she could.

Sometimes life would get to be too much, on this magical ride

Of living, loving, and learning on this trip from the other side.

But no matter what life gave her every day,

Good, bad, right, or wrong she always stood her ground and did it her way.

Then sometimes the things that we do, the things that we sow,

Develop the cancers that devour us and cause us to go.

The life that seemed like it would last forever passed in the blink of an eye.

This trip of living, loving, and learning is over and she must return to the other side.

STANLEY HENDRIX

  4/4/08

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