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Grieve not for me

Grieve not for me
nor mourn the while,
for happier would I be
to see you smile.

Let no tears fall
since I have passed away
but miss me and
remember me each day.

Live your lives
as I would want you to,
and treat your fellowman
as I would do.

And when the time has come,
your lives be through,
I shall be waiting here
for each of you.

Now I can breathe easily again

and in this passing sleep

sleep painlessly again.

If you must weep

and weep you may

remember I am freed to find

old friends and family.

Even to walk on with one

awakened just like me a little while ago

to our new amity.

Remember too that days

I have to leave behind

are just a parting of the ways.

Sad as we are in leaving,

think that I may find

the ease I lost those many years ago

but found renewable in loving you

and in enduring friendships too.

Remember, just remember me

For Spring comes in recollections

It will not always be December.

A Celtic Blessing

from Anam Cara by John O'Donohue

On the day when

the weight deadens

on our shoulders,

may the clay dance

to balance you.

And when your eyes

freeze behind

the gray window

and the ghosts of loss

get in to you

may a flock of colours,

indigo, red green

and azure blue

come to awaken in you

a meadow of delight.

When the canvas frays

in the curach of thought

and a stain of ocean

blackens beneath you,

may there come across the waters

a path of yellow moonlight

to bring you safely home.

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