ELEGY & ANTIPHONA for Diana Princess of Wales

Saturday, 6th September 1997
by Susumu Takiguchi

Let us not hold tears

Let us not hold tears,
For shedding them is the tribute
To the one so natural
And spontaneous.
Flow, flow
Tears
Into an eternal stream of love
Across the world
Where mortals will remember her.
Swell, swell
Tears
Into a timeless river of hope
That sends her soul
To the heaven

 Through her vulnerability she gained her strength

Through her vulnerability she gained her strength;
Through her torment she strengthened her compassion;
Through her being denied love she increased her capacity to love;
Through her suffering from the artificiality of modern times she showed what it was to be genuine;
Through her worldly decline she elevated her spiritual height;
Through her being ill-treated she added to her humanity;
Through her destruction she achieved triumph;
Through her being humiliated she humbled the arrogant;
Through her misfortune she gave her helping hand to the less fortunate;
Through her coming down to people she raised her real status to sainthood;
Through her being disowned in her own country she had the whole world in love with her;
Through her losing her identity she found her true mission in life;
Through her death she gave love, compassion and humanity to all.



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