Lasting Peace. Poem by PAUL COLVIN

My heart is heavy, my legs have gone
My body’s served me well,
No longer can I walk this land
The place I love and dwell
So take me all, carry me
And give me such a view
For in my mind, I’ll always have,
Lasting thoughts of you.

A cairn on a mountain top
One that we both knew,
Will be my final resting place
Reminding me of you.
I want to see God’s kindly eyes
And hold His hand of love
For the love I shared with you on earth
Is all I’m guilty of.

Lay my weary limbs to rest
And cover me with stones,
Let the freshest air surround
My naked flesh and bones
Then mark a plot beside me dear
Score the earth to make a crease
And we’ll be together evermore,
Finally at peace.

As the lone piper plays a last lament
It carries through the glen,
We lived our life as in a dream
And will do so once again,
Then when God calls for your sweetest hand
He’ll see your smiling face
And He will know, that we have found,
Our final resting place.