“Afterglow”
By Helen Lowrie Marshall

I’d like the memory of me
To be a happy one.
I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles
When life is done.

I’d like to leave an echo
Whispering softly down the ways,
Of happy times and laughing times
And bright and sunny days.

I’d like the tears of those who grieve,
To dry before the sun of happy memories
That I leave when life is done.

“His Journey’s Just Begun”
By E. Brenneman

Don’t think of him
As gone away
His journey’s just begun,
Life holds so many facets
This earth is only one….

Just think of him as resting
From the sorrows and the tears
In a place of warmth and comfort
Where there are no days and years.

Think how he must be wishing
That we could know today
How nothing but our sadness
Can really pass away.

And think of him as living
In the hearts of those he touched…
For nothing loved is ever lost
And he was loved so much.

“She is Gone”
By David Harkins

You can shed tears that she is gone,
Or you can smile because she has lived
You can close your eyes and pray that she’ll come back,
Or you can open your eyes and see all that she’s left.

Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her
Or you can be full of the love you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.

You can remember her and only that she’s gone,
Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind,
be empty and turn your back,

Or you can do what she’d want,
Smile, open your eyes, love and go on.