To Those I Love

Another wonderful funeral poem taken from Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep, our book of over 250 poems, quotations and readings for funerals, memorial services, eulogies and inner peace:

If I should ever leave you 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 love you so –

’twas heaven here with you!

Isla Paschal Richardson (1886-1971)