Telling You Was Hard 
I thought you were a hero
But telling you was hard.
Your strength and honour made me proud
But telling you was hard.

Why though was it difficult
...

Don't Grieve For Me 
Don't grieve for me, from pain I'm free
I'm following the path God has laid, you see.
I took his hand when I heard his call
I turned around and left ...

Tomorrow's wish 
As you close your eyes to sleep...
I wonder what you dream about?
I still dream of yesterday,
For I am certain to find you there,
I know that one shouldn'...

The Clock has stopped-Never Forgotten 
The Clock has stopped
The silence is deafening,
I take deep breaths
But my breathing is shallow
I see you but I am blinded
I smell you but I cannot ...

Please Don't Cry 
please don't cry,don't weep for me
am not gone and still with u
am that star that shines in the night
am the wind that blows

please don't cry for ...

The Time Has Come 
The time has come for me to close my eyes
The pain will be gone i need you to realize
That ...

PLEASE!!!
My Poem On The Death Of My Child 
Please, don't ask me if I'm over it yet
I'll never get over it
Please, don't tell me she's in a better place
she's not here with me
Please, don't ...

Kids' Goodbye Dad Poem 
We lift your hand
Now you can fly
As we have said our last goodbye

You've walked the bridge
You've crossed the line
Your final sigh, the final sign
...

Our Butterfly
(for my mother, with love) 
Fly away our butterfly
On silver wings way up high
Sail upon the gentle breeze
Lifting you up above the old oak tree.

Fly away our butterfly
To ...

Nine months later..... 
I thought that we would never fall apart,
But here I am standing with a broken heart.
And why the angels took you far away,
They didn't ask but I wanted ...

Life's Weaving 
Life is but a weaving
between my God and me;
I may not choose the colors,
He knows what they should be.

For he can view the pattern
upon the upper ...

God Saw You 
God saw you getting tired and a
cure was not to be,
So he put his arms around you
and whispered "Come to me".
With tearful eyes we watched you,
and ...

Poem About Loved One Lost 
When I Close My Eyes

When I close my eyes
You are here
Your charisma, your cheer, your tenderness
I feel you here

When I close my eyes
You ...

Poem for Loss of a Loved One: Love goes on 
Love goes on

Death is not the end,
For love goes on
And you will find the evidence
Long after I have gone.
The flowers that we planted
Will blossom ...

Fears 
Colors fade,
friends shed tears.
We have all discovered
our worst of fears.

Here one min,
and gone the next.
No more phone calls
no more texts....

Apart 
Gone to the touch,
but here in my heart.
Never thought I would
have to see us be apart.

There's not a day that passes,
That I wish you were here....

Poem about Missing Loved One 
We Had No Time To Say Goodbye


there is one thing that makes me cry
and life is sometimes so unfair
we had no time to say goodbye
so i just hope ...

Funeral Poem For Grandmother 
My Grandmother passed away December 30,2008, she was 85. I loved her so very much. A piece of myself has died as well. I miss her and want to just hold ...

For An Adventurer Who Died Too Young 
What should one's life be?

Neat and orderly,
or messy and chaotic?

Quiet desperation,
even quieter compromise?
or daring thrills,
creative ...

in loving memory  Not rated yet
wishing that i had heaven on speed dial that i kiss you just for a while... hoping to touch your little red face with one more kiss waiting on god to bless ...

goodbye angel.  Not rated yet
Her loving smile and gentle touch,
her amazing voice I miss so much,
To hear her sing, to hear her talk,
A million miles I would walk.

To hold her ...

Swimming in clear blue water  Not rated yet
Swimming in clear blue water
Deep, deep
You with your eyes wide open
Floating
Diving
Laughing
Happy once more

So many months of
Confusion
Sadness
...

Tomorrow's wish  Not rated yet
As you close your eyes to sleep...
I wonder what you dream about?
I still dream of yesterday,
For I am certain to find you there,
I know that one shouldn'...

Uncle Donnie's up above us  Not rated yet
What can I say about my Uncle Donnie? He loved television. He liked the movie Star Trek. He also likes the SyFy channel. He was always there for his ...

I'll see you again one day  Not rated yet
When I wake I wonder if it has all been a bad dream
I hope things are not what they seem
Then I remember that you are no longer here
I blink hard, to ...

will remember thee-always  Not rated yet
just when i raise my hopes to see
you disappeared like a dust
just when i looked forward to see
you've turned a thing on the past
my hopes are gone
...

Remembering Leisha  Not rated yet
In adulthood
As brothers and sisters:
We have our own lives
So different
So far apart
Yet there is so much we share
Childhood experiences
Recollections
...

Be At Peace   Not rated yet
Let the tears fall,
I will still be there with you.
Let the rain fall,
And never fear the thunder.
I am still with you dear ones,
Watching you and ...

To One in Paradise
by Edgar Allan Poe  Not rated yet
Thou wast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine --
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine,
All wreathed with fairy fruits ...

Crossing the Bar
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson  Not rated yet
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems ...

Crossing the Bar
by Alfred Lord Tennyson  Not rated yet
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems ...

An Inconceivable Wish  Not rated yet
My name is Mary Boyle
and I'm told I have to go,
another realm is calling me
a place I dont yet know,
so its with pen and paper in my hand
I'll ...

please don't cry  Not rated yet
please don't cry ,don't weep for me
am not gone and still with you
am that star that shines in the night
am the wind that blows

please don't cry ...

rest in peace  Not rated yet
dear mama hope you're fine
in the other world that you're in,
but mama u left me weeping
i wept and wept cause u went with out saying goodbye
and ...

Why Say Goodbye?  Not rated yet
HEY MUM I KNOW THAT U LEFT
BUT MUM I STILL WONDER WHY
U WOULD LEAVE US WITHOUT SAYING
GOODBYE,U LEFT ME WEEPING
I WEPT AND WEPT

MUM U WERE MY MORNING ...

why say good bye  Not rated yet
each night i still feel him
i have no rest,no hope for the
hope that i had my taken away
by fate,the love that i had for him.

i still remember ...

gone too soon   Not rated yet
I never thought this day would come
by me closing my eyes and saying fair is done granny you left my heart empty
and to never be filled
I never knew ...

My little Angel  Not rated yet
Out the blue you came with little warning

So beautiful, so sweet

You smiled you jabbered all the noises and sights a mother loves to see

Your ...

here and gone.  Not rated yet
you're here and so very much apart of our lives and then your gone such a sad loss
but not from our hearts and minds
for your memory will live as ...

Little Wing
Poem for The Loss of A Child  Not rated yet
Fly, fly little wing

Fly beyond imagining

The softest cloud, the whitest dove

Upon the wind of heaven's love

Past the planets and the stars
...

I will be no more  Not rated yet
When the leaves curl and fall from the trees
My life shall be no more
The wind will blow
Breaking the winter’s silence
But I will be no more

Gone ...

losing you is like losing myself  Not rated yet
losing you is like losing myself
cold dull and dark i know
you don't want me to worry but
its hard when i cant see and talk to you.
until we meet ...

Picture Me by Phyllis Franklin   Not rated yet
Picture Me,as you say your last goodbye
Picture Me,as with the Angels I did fly.
Picture Me,In Heaven They're saying Here She(He) come's
Picture Me,...

Funeral Poem for My Mother  Not rated yet
My Mother

In infancy's unconscious day,
I weak and helpless long did lay,
Who o'er my form did watch and pray,
My Mother.

Who nourished me with ...

As Once Was Said  Not rated yet
You both took chances,
It was close a few too many times.
You thought it would never happen,
Not to you, especially not at one time.

Your jobs ...

Nothing to say  Not rated yet
There's nothing to say now that I'm gone.
I'm quiet now, no sound no song.
I'm in the wind, as it blows through your hair.
I'm the sun on your face,...

Death in the Family  Not rated yet
How are we supposed to act
When there is a death in the family
Do you just stop and break down
Or do you keep on going

Do you stop and call
To your ...

To God's Garden  Not rated yet
An adaptation of God Saw You Getting Tired:

You strove to live alone,
To talk and walk around,
But as the illness was relentless,
You were forced ...

The Rebel  Not rated yet
The crazy ones, the misfits, rebels,
troublemakers,
The round peg in the square hole,
The ones who see things differently.

Their not fond of ...

Poem for mom  Not rated yet
This is the poem we put in my mother's program for her memorial service.

The Cost by Dorothy Monroe


Death is not too high a price to pay
for having ...

The poem, Closing The Circle, by Wendell Berry  Not rated yet
Within the circle of our lives
we dance the circle of the years,
the circles of the seasons
within the circles of the years,
the cycles of the moon
...

Funeral Poem for Mother  Not rated yet
We ended my mother's funeral with the following benediction:

Out of her Mother she came,
- born as we all are born.
And she returns to the Mother
...

Johnny Cash  Not rated yet
Here is a video of the tribute for Johnny Cash that was played at his funeral. Johnny's family provided much of the footage. I love this!




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