Because you loved freedom more than the world

You are once again a free-flowing soul, moving between lives —

From sins of the family, and curses for daughters

— To make forgiveness possible

Yesterday we were four millennium children searching for the Big Dipper

From the sea of stars in the Southeast Asian night

I wanted to be an artist, you said, and I a scientist

And that began the promise of a lifetime

Tonight in the Bay Area I saw the Dipper again

And I knew that nothing is lost —

Your dream is safe with me; I am the part of you that survived.

As our ages become closer, I finally learned peace in the chaos we shared

“Then I saw a new heaven and new earth, for the first heaven and first earth had passed away.”

And then I saw New Eden.

Good night, my sister

Farewell and godspeed

(Sylvia Winters Xue to Jing Xue 1991-2025)