God's Garden
God looked around his garden
and found an empty place,
He then looked down upon the earth
and saw your tired face.
He put his arms around you
And lifted you to rest,
God's garden must be beautiful,
He only takes the best.
He knew that you were suffering,
He knew you were in pain,
He knew that you would never
walk upon this earth again.
So he closed your weary eyelids
and whispered 'now it's time'.
Then He took you up to Heaven
With hands so gentle and kind.
It broke our hearts to lose you
but you didn't go alone,
Part of us went with you,
the day God took you home.
- Author Unknown
28th June 2017
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Sent by Pancreatic Cancer Action on 09/06/2017
I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.
Extract from a poem by Henry Scott Holland