<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=570477" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Requiem: 'The Last Poem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wrote this poem on All Saints/All Souls Day 1981 and it is dedicated to my brother, Patrick who passed away in1975, and to the memory of many friends and family.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Embarked the journey on your own<br>The choice in crossroads taken<br>The tapestry you once wove<br>The threads are now forsaken</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The words you left to me<br>Heard only by the Saints<br>The voice from the wilderness calls<br>No picture you can paint</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although your dreams not realised<br>Your memory will never fade<br>And Heaven keeps your secrets<br>The words you tried to say</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the ashes the Phoenix rose<br>Your soul which blessed this way<br>Time's pirates may steal the gold<br>But memories grace this day</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And wide the Portals open<br>One's life and death the key<br>The star will reach its zenith<br>Then quiet the ending will be</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The golden path now taken<br>A key to heroes unsung<br>To His breath and in loving arms <br>All your deeds are done</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No epic or poet can describe<br>The peace spent in the final hour<br>Embrace me stars eternally<br>A hymn sent to Heaven's flower</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the curtain draws across your eyes<br>The stars sing their elegy<br>This last poem I write for you<br>Are to the words you wrote to me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weep no more, His love imparts<br>Peace as the Prophecy<br>As is written in the scrolls<br>Reveal the Trinity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enshrouded as the Vision stares<br>Look back; Forever sleep<br>Your star vibrates in unison<br>Now rest in Heaven's keep</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> **********<br> Amen</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As you were given to us and now have part, you will always be in our memories and always in our hearts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lorraine+Margueritte+Gasrel+Black">Lorraine Margueritte Gasrel Black</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=570477" data-title="Requiem: 'The Last Poem de Lorraine Margueritte Gasrel Black" data-description="I wrote this poem on All Saints/All Souls Day 1981 and it is dedicated to my brother, Patrick who passed away in1975, and to the memory of many friends and family. Embarked the journey on your own The choice in crossroads taken The tapestry you ..."></div> </div> </div>

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