<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340584" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Deathbed Discourse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This past week I lost two good friends. The one friend I lost to cancer. The poor guy suffered horribly. All through his ordeal his wife was by his bedside. I began to reflect on this and I tried to put myself in his place. What would I say? What would I think knowing I was about to die? Shortly after musing, I composed this sonnet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weep no tears for me at this time and place.<br>A thousand eyes change not my destiny.<br>All living things must die eventually<br>Except my love for you, which I embrace.<br>Feel not sad for me looking at my face<br>Although it's old and wrinkled you can see<br>A budding rose should age so gracefully.<br>My time grows near my love; in any case<br>Your life goes on nevertheless my love.<br>So wipe those eyes dry of life's mournful dew<br>And think not this time undeserving of.<br>Life had been kind, more so, finding you.<br>A lifelong companion envied above<br>By angels and cherubs alike, love!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Albert+Ahearn">Albert Ahearn</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340584" data-title="Deathbed Discourse de Albert Ahearn" data-description="This past week I lost two good friends. The one friend I lost to cancer. The poor guy suffered horribly. All through his ordeal his wife was by his bedside. I began to reflect on this and I tried to put myself in his place. What would I say? What ..."></div> </div> </div>

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