My Calling

I rise like a Phoenix from my bed

Dressing myself in my armor of love and compassion

Honored to be of service during the transition from the living

Conversations, confidences and candy is shared as I am schooled about

life now and how it used to be then

Becoming one with family and friends equally

All the while strolling to the ending scene with grace and dignity.

I wash their bodies lovingly humming a sacred ritual song

Death is my lover caressing my soul

we dance on the

Rainbow bridge as he begins to show me the art of dying

Signs, Signals, Symptoms foretell of the transformation to come

Death sits in wait waiting to balance the weight between

Life and Death with humans hoping to be spared this fate.

Death confirms their time to crossover is approaching soon

Holding their hand as they prepare to be transformed into spirit form

traveling on the wings of hummingbirds to a new way to be loved

I wash their bodies lovingly humming a sacred ritual song

I see their souls rise from their bodies looking

For their ancestors to help them crossover

The room is filled with the love of the universe as they dance with death

The crossing transmuting their soul

Converting it into the love and light from which they came

Grateful for every soul I help take flight

Knowing that dancing with death is my calling in this life

I wash their bodies lovingly humming a sacred ritual song