My friend, When you were born, Life cast you into this dream While giving to you love To remind you of waking Reality.
As surely as I love you now And sit beside your final bed, Not soon to sleep, but soon youΒ΄ll awaken From the dream from which Destiny calls.
Ahead of you Death has always walked Showing you your fated path And giving love in those precious moments When the dreamer dared to lift his eyes.
In death your truth foreve finds you When love reaches its Eternal Source As the Reality with which it soon will meld In the harmony of oneΒ΄s mortal end.
The love we felt for you in life Has touched us all beyond its close Leaving memories in the livings' minds And something deeper that we sometimes find:
In future moments of conscious grace When Present's joy meets open hearts We will be following You through love More strongly than any memory.
If our recollections of you fade -Though for me they never will- Take comfort in your destination That calls you clearly even now.
This solace I now try to hold: Trapped in memories of your love Which soon will leave this mortal plane And leave me sitting here without you.
Your impending absence brings a rift That keeps me from the words I preach And casts me from God's loving arms Into the abyss of this black dream.
These tears that I shed for you now Fall on unforgiving floors And force me to the recognition That more than ever I feel alone.
A meditation on death. This is what I felt as I sat beside him.