What a beautiful unflinching tribute. The honour and respect paid to this woman/women is so clear yet gently worded, like a whispered narration of the immediate aftermath of the passing of a great person. It could probably apply to most woman of the last few hundred years but their presence and influence was so great that each would have felt like a colossal loss. I might be imagining this but I sense a deeper layer with the funeral also symbolising the end of an era of women paying a heavy toll for their role in society.
Hey Sin é. Thank you for this. So thoughtful. I wrote this after a very close female Irish friend passed away. As I was writing it I wove in elements of other Irish women who had influenced the man I am now. It is an homage to that collective. The funeral part was my Grandmother’s. She was certainly the last of her kind. Thanks again for dropping by.
What a beautiful unflinching tribute. The honour and respect paid to this woman/women is so clear yet gently worded, like a whispered narration of the immediate aftermath of the passing of a great person. It could probably apply to most woman of the last few hundred years but their presence and influence was so great that each would have felt like a colossal loss. I might be imagining this but I sense a deeper layer with the funeral also symbolising the end of an era of women paying a heavy toll for their role in society.
Hey Sin é. Thank you for this. So thoughtful. I wrote this after a very close female Irish friend passed away. As I was writing it I wove in elements of other Irish women who had influenced the man I am now. It is an homage to that collective. The funeral part was my Grandmother’s. She was certainly the last of her kind. Thanks again for dropping by.