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Nudging for Anita, who has just lost her dear Mum.

Lizx

Remembering today the birthday of my lovely Mum who I miss so very much.
Raising my glass to wish a Happy Birthday Mum.

Gone but not forgotten.

We Will Hurt

We will hurt
For the love we can't give.

We will rejoice
For the love you have received.

We will be restless
For our lives are not whole.

We will be peaceful
For we know it is not forever.

A classic this.... read out in Four Weddings And A Funeral.

FUNERAL BLUES .......... W.H.AUDEN

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone
Prevent the dog barking with a juicy bone
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
Put crepe bows around the necks of the public doves
Let traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West
My working week and my Sunday rest
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song
I thought that love would last forever.
I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

Beautiful verses that maybe Carole (Tinkerbell) will find comforting when able to read them. My sympathy Carole, on the sad loss of your Dad

Lizxx

I Am Not Gone written by Michael Ashby

I am not gone
While you cry with me
I am not gone
While you smile with me
I am not gone
While you remember with me.

I will come
When you call my name
I will come
When I feel your pain
I will come
On your final day.

It could never be
That we
Would never be.

We shall always
Be together
Forever.

I am not gone.

- n -

Ah bless you Liz for those kind words and like you, I also believe that one day we will meet again.

More words to share:-

TIME written by Henry Van Dyke

Time is too slow for those who wait
Too swift for those who fear
Too long for those who grieve
Too short for those who rejoice
But for those who love
Time is Eternity.

Gloria, that must have been so hard for your family to accept, losing a loved one so young and so suddenly. Just be reassured that one day you will all see her again.

Lizx

Hello All........... I am back once again:-

Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and
death is only the horizon, and
the horizon is nothing save the limit
of our sight.
(Rossiter W. Raymond)

Today, I stood at the graveside of my 44yr old niece. She had collapsed and died suddenly. The cause of death was "Natural Causes".
In a prieviously fit and well young woman, how can that be? I am sad!

Those we love remain with us
For love itself lives on, and
Treasured memories never fade
Because a loved ones gone.
Those we love can never be
More than a thought apart,
For as long as there is memory
They will live on in our hearts.

Loving wishes sent to Puss and her family at this sad time.

n

I hope all these verses will bring comfort to those who have lost loved ones.
Special thoughts to Puss and her family

Lizxxx

Dream as if you will live forever
Live as if you will die today..................James Dean

Have this pinned on kitchen board where I have read these special words over and over again!

DREAMS written by Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

I agree with all your lovely sentiments Liz.

This is yet another "Remember Me" but not words shared earlier. This one by Christina Rosetti

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by my hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you planned:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray,
Yet if you should forget me for a while, and
Afterwards remember, do not grieve;
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

Gloria, that's so true, there is also never a set time to stop grieving. May we all remember our lost loved ones with fondness and pleasure, recalling happy times spent together and the richness of our lives from their presence.

So often we grieve for those lost through illness etc, but it's a selfish grief it we would have them back pain and all.

Loving links are only disconnected for a little while and then rejoined as time goes on and we leave this world too, to be together again with those we miss and love.

Lizx

You dont "get over" the death of a loved one.
You learn to come to terms with it..... you hold the love inside of you and you live on.

Hi would like to add this one



Her Journey's Just Begun

Don't think of her as gone away,
Her journey's just begun.
Life holds so many facets,
This earth is only one.
Just think of her as resting
from the sorrows and the tears,
In a place of warmth and comfort
Where there are no days and years.
Think how she must be wishing
That we could know today,
How nothing but our sadness
Can really pass away.
And think of her as living
In the hearts of those she touched,
For nothing loved is ever lost
And she was loved so much.

They Are Not Dead

They are not dead
Who leave us this heritage of remembering joy

They still live in our hearts
In the happiness we knew
In the dreams we shared.

They still breathe
In the lingering fragrance, windblown
from their favourite flowers.

They still smile
In the moonlight's silver, and
Laugh in the sunlight's sparkling gold.

They still speak
In the echoes of the words
Weve heard them say again and again.

They still move
In the rhythm of waving grasses
In the dance of the tossing branches.

They are not dead
Their memory is warm in our hearts
Comfort in our sorrow.

They are not apart from us, but a part of us.

For love is eternal, and
those we love shall be with us
Throughout all eternity.