Look beyond the empty chair
To know a life well spent
Look beyond the solitude
To days of true content
Cherish in your broken heart
Each moment gladly shared
And feel the touch of memory
Beyond the empty chair.
Sonnet 30 by William Shakespeare, written for a close friend. This remembrance poem is an ideal funeral poem for a loved one.
I am lying next to you, awake now while you sleep, For death has just released me, yet in your dream you weep. If only
A short funeral poem about remembering loved ones after they are gone, ideal for a religious or non-religious funeral.
If you could have seen the devastation, shattered hearts you’d leave behind, would you still have left this world that day? Would it have made
