There Is No Need To Mourn
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Written for my stepdad upon his death after suffering several years from dementia.
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There is no need to mourn, for he will go
to where no thunder quakes, no harsh winds blow.
He's going to the light where he will find
the ones who wait, the ones who are enshrined
within his heart, his kin of long ago.
He leaves this earth and leaves the life he chose,
proceeding to that tender light that glows
in front of him, no more to be confined!
There is no need to mourn.
A kind and friendly man, he had no foe
but one, the fiend that comes one day to show
itself, then slowly ravages the mind.
But grace has come and though we're left behind,
it’s to his sweet revival he will go. . .
There is no need to mourn.
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2012
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