It’s okay to miss you,
It’s okay to cry.
Just know I’ll never forget you.
This isn’t a permanent goodbye.
Sometimes I sit and wonder
If you are standing by my side,
Giving me the courage
To carry on with pride.
I’ll hold onto our memories,
Until this life is done.
In my heart is where I’ll store them,
Where we can be as one.
A short funeral poem by American writer Walt Whitman, about the soul passing from life into death.
Short bereavement poem by beloved 19th Century American writer Walt Whitman, ideal for a funeral reading.
A short but beautiful remembrance poem about feeling your loved one’s presence looking over you after they are gone.
I only have a picture now, A frozen piece of time, To remind me of how it was, When you were here, and mine. I
