Death's Veil

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by Jack

Q2 2024 | 6/30/2024

In celebration of the courageous life of African American revolutionary and educator Dr. James Turner of the Africana Studies & Research Center and April 1969 Cornell University.

“Yesterday two people important in my life cycle stepped thru the veil. Sox has been holding space with one of them (James Turner) for a good while now.” -Kétu Oladuwa

“The earth shifts beneath my feet. James Turner was truly a redwood in our grove. The ground still shakes a day later.” -Sox Sperry

Death's veil only opens one way:
In the end life is only for the living.
Death is an intimate loss from a being's passing,
as that one's time as a living being,
force alive on earth passes through the veil
separating the living from the dead.
Death is a force in the material world
that the living must endure to survive.
That loss of gravity that the now dead held
before passing through the veil is immediate.
The living to overcome the loss,
the grief of death's passage,
takes time and for one you loved
there is not enough time to truly
forget the living presences
and what more of life would have been.
The life force of a great human being,
a measure of a revolutionary political history,
what was achieved and created while alive,
even with the passing of years,
stays alive and with the living,
for successive generation to build upon.
In the end life is only for the living: Death's veil only opens one way.

Death's Veil