Yahrzeit: A Poem

So already, an original poem connected to the first anniversary of my father's death.*  

Yahrzeit is the Yiddish word for the anniversary of a loved one's death.

Yahrzeit

 

Your death 

is no longer news--

just stone fact

on which ordinary

days and ways,

jolted less

by sudden apprehension

of the already known,

light and pivot, 

then fly on--

because life

is for living,

which you loved.

 

* My dad died on December 12, 2020 on the Gregorian calendar, on Kislev 26, 5781 on the Jewish calendar--so his memorial candle is always lit on the second night of Hanukkah.