Far Beyond Words

Thoughts on our world by the late Raymond V. Bomba. Photographs by his son, Christopher Bomba. Edited by his daughter, Mary Bomba.

Tag: rebirth

August 21, 2014

OUT OF SUFFERING, SHOCK, AND DEFEAT

Out of suffering, shock, and defeat
may come an extraordinary renewal.
Almost every loss offers some hope of compensation.
Pain, in its many forms, may be measured
by the force it generates against itself.
Shock can be a warning.
Defeat can be a cleansing and a rebirth
that may be long overdue.

October 28, 2013

INVITE A KIND OF DEATH

Dia de los Muertos, Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Invite a kind of death, rebirth, renewal,
change. In much of our dying we live.
In much of death we renew ourselves.
Are we not a part
of something else, that also needs to
live, to die, to change?

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