I visited his grave and thought to find him there
For death had swiftly come and I must go to say goodbye:
But as I stood and cast my eye upon the earth so lately moved
Where I had seen him lain that very morn, I found him not
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Raised in a loving working class family. Father died at the early age of forty. Married with two sons Brenda works as a nurse but has always loved literature and music.)
A Sudden Death
I visited his grave and thought to find him there
For death had swiftly come and I must go to say goodbye:
But as I stood and cast my eye upon the earth so lately moved
Where I had seen him lain that very morn, I found him not
For though finality insists that death's completeness came that day
And ne'er again my heart need wonder where he dwells
Still I turned away unsatisfied and searching
And elsewhere found him where he laughed and lived
For he was gone but not yet gone to those he loved
His memory like flesh and bone would neither soon decay
Through sharply focused thought of him I kept him near
Negating death, his faults and imperfection quietly done away
But time brings blessed reality to check this rapturous grief
Then grief's exquisite agony is calmed by memory with imperfection blent
And I while knowing he no longer looks and laughs and is as once he was
Yet for his sake must claim to know him still