Bride's Mound: For Kathy Hope

Bride's Mound is a site sacred to the Druids in Glastonbury. This beautiful Druid funeral was a wonderful way to say farewell to a lovely soul. Up on Bride’s Mound, where the sky meets the ground Circle wheels within wheels, on a blue winter day Child of the trees, of the stars and the breeze How much we love her and want her to stay Waft of incense on air, words of ritual prayer Gentleness, blessing, children at play They who confessed her, who laid out and dressed her Scattering acorns, wormwood, and bay No dark corner spared in the memories shared Of the pain that she had before finding her way Rivers of sound, through the harp, through the ground Diluting the darkness, dissolving dismay Herein is forgiving; the dead and the living Made fresh by the scent of a rosemary spray And redemption and peace, in her final release Leave us free to remember and love as we may We are all of us here, she has nothing to fear Her spirit has gone from the bier where she lay As together we stand, on this green hallowed land Holding dear Kathy Hope as we love her away by Gail