A short poem by Rabindranath Tagore on grief : Poet Seers

     I dedicate this short poem by Rabindranath Tagore on grief to the memory of my mother Evelyn M. Gilmer (1923-2016). Since she passed away on Thursday, April 21, I have missed her every day. Although it grieves me that she is no more, I am thankful that she was.

A SHORT POEM ON GRIEF

by Rabindranath Tagore

(Photo: Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries)

Say not in grief that she is no more

but say in thankfulness that she was.

A death is not the extinguishing of a light,

but the putting out of the lamp

because the dawn has come.

-- R. Tagore (1861-1941)

   Indian poet