I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one. I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways. Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry…
His Journey’s Just Begun Don’t think of him as gone away His journey’s just begun Life holds so many facets This earth is only one Just think of him as resting From the sorrows and the tears In a place of warmth and comfort Where there are no days and years Think how he must…
Perhaps you sent a lovely card, Or sat quietly in a chair. Perhaps you sent a funeral spray, If so we saw it there. Perhaps you spoke the kindest words, As any friend could say. Perhaps you were not there at all, Just thought of us that day. Whatever you did to console our hearts,…
They say there is a reason, They say that time will heal, But neither time nor reason, Will change the way we feel, For no one knows the heartache, That lies beyond our smiles, No one knows how many times, We have broken down and cried, We want to tell you something, So there won’t…
When I come to the end of the road, And the sun has set for me, I want no rites in a gloom filled room, Why cry for a soul set free. Miss me a little, but not too long, And not with your head bowed low. Remember the love that we once shared, Miss…
When I must leave you When I must leave you for a little while, Please do not grieve and shed wild tears And hug your sorrow to you through the years, But start out bravely with a gallant smile, And for my sake and in my name, Live on and do all things the same.…
I am standing on the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts out for the Blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and I stand and watch her until at length she fades on the far horizon. Then someone at my side says, “There, she…
