Death cannot end or steal the spirit that lives in those we leave behind to grieve us as over life's tossed sea it strives the feeble soul lifts over the tide as toward lighted portals glide to float upon a wider sea until a heavenly port eyes see when home at last through the restless waves held in the Master's hand we sail a lovely sea, so vast it bounds beyond human grasp known only to the Mighty one who calmed the roaring waters our Father ,and our God