Laid To Rest Poems - Poems about Laid To Rest

If our life is predestined and our fate preordained Why stress and strain, why live a life of drudgery Oh, why toil in vain, why to the grindstone be chained, Let's indulge in a life of slothful luxury. ~Contest: Sin of Sloth ~Sponsor: Margarita Lillico....

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I sit at the ivy gates Waiting to say goodbye I should be sad Filled with hate It's not sarrow But joy inside Though all this sadness Breaks my heart You no longer bare the pain The world will weep in your absence It will no longer be the same R.K.H...

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in a gathering full of strangers friends and family alliances are seldom celebrated as lay minister stands over your casket preaching your eulogy telling your story telling of your life and of your future Glory Verbally celebrating your life Not reassuring the gathering of your reuniting with Christ Six strong man carry you from the hearse to the...

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They laid her to rest Hands folded across the chest A dream of a dream of a dream Chaotic though it may seem We were the first to see The rising of the sea Living in the plastic age Leaving Mother in a frothing rage Until she could no longer feel And it suddenly seemed real We ran out of time Because greed and science don't...

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This grave with barber Bob is blessed ~ He was a cut above the rest! 30.01.19 'Pithy pants poetry contest' Sponsored by: Maureen McGreavy...

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Tears no longer come, dried ducts of wrung emotion, denied one more drop of release. ... but only to feel Feel your finite presence beside me, inhaling your sweet scent to memory. Feel your heart pulsate through the calfskin of the despair that seals me in its snare. Rhythms of a hopeless eternity of love, not destined for us. Feel my heart bleeding...

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Tears no longer come, dried ducts of wrung emotion, denied one more drop of release. ... but only to feel Feel your finite presence beside me, inhaling your sweet scent to memory. Feel your heart pulsate through the calfskin of the despair that seals me in its snare. Rhythms of a hopeless eternity of love, not destined for us. Feel my heart bleeding...

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Miss Whiplash died, sadly gone forever Was laid to rest in chains and leather....

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I can't be that happy heart as others see me, my moods I conceal; I hide everything that hurts, cover it with shameless pretense and yet it's accepted by me. This youth was short-lived, a hundred days seemed only one day, brief loves consumed in daffodils fields lasted a season, then died near winter. They were birds in search of joy, and when...

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My heart lies cold and lifeless And not beating in my chest Your cold and hateful words Has laid my tender heart to rest I had loved you for so long Waiting for your loving touch Not caring the days gone by Not worried overly much But the days turned into weeks And finally into years And then my eyes grew dim And I...

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The distant sound of foot fall as I trod a barren land Diminished to an echo near my heart My "patience" through the years has Brought me to a still born stand Encompassed by the fears of a new start Grieve I for the life I've lost Forever laid to rest My emptiness is now a hardened shell My struggle to surrender fights Temptation to...

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Defining moments when it doesn't feel like you're you You make a choice because there's nothing else you can do At the time, it seems the best of the bad solutions In your head comes all this thought pollution Did you do the right thing? Must take care of myself, Respect me as a human being Never would want to impose Or think...

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Today I saw a daughter laid to rest. A mother tries to heed her own advice. Holding it in surely put her to the test. She failed more than once or twice. Her failing was no artificial device. She tried, Lord how hard she tried. She simply could not pay the price. She cried, oh how the mother cried. She was a fifth...

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Soon the day will come when I will be with the father above. Sharing in his never ending love. When I am laid to rest I will not have to worry did I pass the test. Only God knows I did my best now that I am in heaven all my burdens are laid to...

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My heart was ripped from my chest the day I saw her laid to rest. We were family, we made a pact. But those dreams were split in half the day i saw her all in black. I've lost all felling in my life. from this day forward, I've cried at night. She has been here with me since...

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