Death

Death is just the life's way

of telling you....

you're fired.

(A. Torosian)

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Death is the only bitch that never leaves you.

(Ernest Hemingway)

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Die and go above.

I'll always think of you my love.

If you're not there on Judgment Day,

I'll know you've gone the other way.

I'll give the angels back their wings,

golden harps and everything

Just to prove my love is true,

I'd die and go to hell for you.

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Don't grieve for me...for now I'm free.

I'm following the path God laid for me.

I took his hand when I heard his call,

I turned by back and left it all.

I could not stay another day, to love, to work or play.

Tasks left undone must stay that way.

I've found that peace at the close of day.

If my parting has left a void,

the fill it with remembered joy,

a love and friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss.

Ah yes, these things I too will miss.

Be not burdened with times of sorrow,

I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.

My life's been full, I savored so much;

good friends, good times, a loved one's touch.

Don't lengthen it with undue grief.

God wanted me now, he set me free.

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Gentle clouds trace the sweep of your angel wing.

Your smile set the Heavens aglow.

Without you my world is dark and cold.

Shining Star,

I wrap your memory around me

and continue on this path

to find you again.

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God looked around his garden

And he found an empty place

He then looked down upon the earth

And saw your tired face.

He put his arms around you

And lifted you to rest

God's garden must be beautiful

He always takes the best.

He knew that you were suffering

He knew you were in pain;

He knew that you would never

Get well on earth again.

He saw that the road was getting rough

And the hills are hard to climb,

So he closed your weary eyelids

And whispered "Peace be Thine."

It broke our hearts to lose you

But you didn't go alone

For part of us went with you

The day God called you home.

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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 be wishing

that we could know today

how nothing but our sadness

can really pass away.

And think of him as living

in the hearts of those he touched....

for nothing loved is evenly lost...

and he was loved so much.

(E. Brenneman)

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God saw you were 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

and saw you pass away.

Although we love you dearly,

we couldn't make you stay.

A golden heart stopped beating,

hard working hands at rest.

God broke our hearts to prove to us,

He only takes the best.

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If I should ever leave you

of whom I love to go along the Silent Way

grieve not,

nor speak of me with tears,

but laugh and talk of me

as if I were beside you there.

(I'd come - I'd come, could I but find a way !

But would not tears and grief be barriers ? )

And when you hear a song

or see a bird I loved,

please do not let the thought of me be sad...

For I am loving you just as I always have.

You were so good to me !

There are so many things I wanted still to do;

so many things to say to you....

Remember that I did not fear....

It was just leaving you that was so hard to face.

We cannot see Beyond...

But this I know:

I loved you so...t'was Heaven here with you !

( Isla Paschal Richardson )

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If tears could build a stairway,

and memories a lane,

I'd walk right up to heaven

and bring you back again.

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Ma loved Pa

Pa loved Women

Here lays Pa.

(seen on a little tombstone)

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Never knock on Death's door.

Just ring the door and run.

He HATES that !!

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Perhaps they are not the stars,

but rather openings in Heaven

where the love of our lost ones

pours through and

shines down upon us

to let us know

they are happy.

(Inspired by an Eskimo legend)

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Remember friends as you pass by,

As you are now so once was I.

As low as I you once must be,

Prepare yourself and follow me.

(written on a tombstone)

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UNTIL WE MEET

Weep not for this empty vessel of clay.

Let your tears be tears of joy,

for at last I am away.

Free of the mortal cage

that had bound me here.

Walking with my Savior now,

and with my loved ones dear.

Remember me with a smile upon my face,

For now I'm smiling always,

in this most glorious place.

I walk and talk and smile

without a worry or a care.

I wait for you in heaven.

BE THERE !!

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Where have you gone since yesterday

and left us lonely here ?

Today you seem so far away

when yesterday you were near.

No maps of ours that we use

your journey can we trace.

We only know you've reached your home

and see the Fathers face.