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MEMORY
We do not need a certain day
to bring you to our minds,
The days we do not think of you
are very hard to find.
Each morning when we awake
we know that you are gone.
And no one knows the heartaches
as we try to carry on.
Our hearts still ache with sadness
and secret tears still flow.
What it means to lose you
no one will ever know.
Our thoughts are always with you,
your place no one can fill.
In life we loved you dearly;
in death we love you still.
There will always be a heartache,
and often a silent tear,
But always a precious memory
of the days when you were here,
If tears would make a staircase,
and heartaches make a lane,
We'd walk the path to heaven
and bring you home again.
We hold you close within our hearts;
and there you will remain.
To walk with us throughout our lives
until we meet again.
Our family chain is broken now,
and nothing seems the same,
But as God calls us one by one,
the chain will link again..
Unknown Author
A parents broken heart......
My love for you is not written on paper,
For paper can be erased.
Nor is my love for you etched in stone,
For stone can be broken.
But my love for you is inscribed in my heart,
Where it shall remain forever.
This year when Christmas boughs are draped,
And cards around the doorway taped,
And cookies baked, and green wreaths hung.
And carols in the crisp night sung;
This Christmas cannot be as fair
For in our home, there's an empty chair....
Dear God in Heaven, bless with peace
We feel that Christmas joy has ceased,
For we still grieve and cannot bear
The stillness of that empty chair.
Instill in us a second sight
To see in death a lasting light
Which reassures that though he died
He now kneels before the manger side
To celebrate the blessed birth
More grandly than he could on earth.
And may the visions of your care
Bring hope enough to fill that chair
So Christmas carols may be sung
And Christmas bells may still be rung
And Christmas peace replace all fears
And Christmas joy be felt through our tears.....~
~ author unknown ~
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