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| Poet Pablo Neruda |
survive me with such force
to waken the furies and cold.
Pablo Neurda the Latin poet was so distraught when dictator Pinochet took over that he died of a heart attack in a Chilean Hospital. Was the man too fragile for life, or did he feel and believe so strongly about the gift of life that it was just too much for him?
We do have his poem, "if i die," which implores the survivor to live with such ferocity to set the furies loose and stir life from the cold. I do not wish to judge the psyche of a man who has passed from us. I can only wonder what happens when we become too invested in the transitory, so that when it goes, so do we.
Surely Jesus died for what he believed in--and once back from the tomb in resurrection, he called his followers to live with him. Paul called it the "power of the resurrection." That alone wakens more than the furies and life from the cold. It set loose the Holy Spirit...and none of us have been the same ever since.
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