Tuesday, September 8, 2009

great poem

A very good friend lost her daughter last week. Tera was a child that had been through troubled times but on the outside was a ray of sunshine. To think of her is to think of her smiling a huge smile, nothing half-way about it. She loved her son and if you were her friend she was fiercely loyal. The day we lost Evette she came over to her house and told my oldest daughter, (they graduated together) "I'm here so somebody will be here for YOU". She knew my sister, but she came for my daughter. I appreciated that so much.
So I found this poem on her facebook site today. It was for her, but it also applies to my sister.

“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 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 only that she is 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.”

I found this quoted from David Harkins. Then I looked some more and others are not sure who originally wrote it. It was referred to as a funeral poem. I don't remember hearing it before, but I plan on trying to remember it more.