please help me

[Slinky'sWench]

maybe this isn't the right place to ask, but I've read the piece's you people write and I'm not sucking ass here, but I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me.

I don't wish to offend or appear morbid or upset anyone, but I want something similar to the 'do not stand at my grave and weep' poem, but something abit more personal and not so cliched a verse (although it is a lovely piece)to be read at a memorial service. Possibley something that young children can understand but something that will also mena something to close friends.
Trouble is I am crap at poetry and haven't a clue where to start.

I'm sorry if I am asking too much, Please help me if you can.

Yours most gratefully.

SW

 

[moondoggie]

try this...

...it would be hard for someone else to write what you maybe feeling or what you want to try and say...when my father passed away, my brothers and sisters all wrote down what they remembered most of him...I had some trouble with that...instead I put together a page of one line sentences...each only expressing one memory...my family liked it and with a little fine tuning, my sister read it as a poem at the service...

I hope it helps...also doing it yourself will help release some of the grief you may be feeling...


My thoughts are with you...

Doggie

 

[KillerMuffin]

I didn't write it, I couldn't write such a thing having never felt that kind of grief, but I did find this. If it doesn't suit, perhaps it can help give some idea of what you prefer.

Farewell my friends
It was beautiful
As long as it lasted
The journey of my life

I have no regrets
Whatsoever save
The pain I’ll leave behind

Those dear hearts
Who love and care
And the heavy with sleep
Ever moist eyes
The smile in spite of a

Lump in the throat
And the strings pulling
At the heart and soul

The strong arms
That held me up
When my own strength
Let me down
Each morsel that I was
Fed with was full of love

At every turning of my life
I came across
Good friends
Friends who stood by me
Even when the time raced me by.

Farewell
Farewell
My friends

I smile and
Bid you goodbye
No, shed no tears
For I need them not
All I need is your smile

If you feel sad
Do think of me
For that’s what I’ll like
When you live in the hearts
Of those you love
Remember then…
You never die.

Gitanjali

 

[Slinky'sWench]

thanks for that Killer and to you moon.

this is the hardest thing I have evr had to write, it might sound twisted, planning what is read at my service, but it's the only way I can cope right now, but even if it isn't read out, I want something I can leave my babies and my closest friends...... time is no longer my friend and there will be so much left unsaid, that I can accept, but my bairns are 2 and 5 and too young to really understand, .....

I'm sorry, I can't explain anymore than that, I'm crap with words, sentiments and feelings

sorry

thanks again for your help

 

[KillerMuffin]

Best of luck to you.

If you haven't already, perhaps you could write a nice long letter to each of your children, and perhaps slinky as well, giving them your memories of both of you together?

 

[Slinky'sWench]

Thanks KillerMuffin

have written to my boys, I sit in their room watching them sleep at night, the clock ticks by, they're my world and it feels like words are not enough.

have also written to slinky, I still love him and letting go hurts like nothing I have felt before.

found this while surfin..“Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well."

Henry Scott Holland

someone else's words, but is the best I can come up with.

 

[Slinky'sWench]

to the wonderful woman who did what she did, thank you so very very much.

 

[just pet]

Here is a eulogy I wrote. You are welcome to borrow any or all

Angel wings
unfold your destiny
hide no longer
but glisten in the morning sun
groomed with love and devotion
entreated home again to God's bosom

infant star
shining on destiny's horizon
illuminating our path
veiled in sorrow
guiding us through Life
with dignity and grace

Don't cry for me
I dance on airy clouds
Don't cry for me
I sing with Angels
Don't cry for me
I fly on Angel's wings

pet