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 moving funeral poem by 19th Century American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, full of beautiful natural imagery.
Are there rocking chairs in Heaven where little babies go? Do the angels hold you closely and rock you to and fro? Do they talk
A beautiful choice for a funeral poem or eulogy, written by Major Malcolm Boyle shortly after taking part in the D-Day landings in 1944.
This is an extract from a longer poem by T.S Elliot, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. It reflects on the optimism
