It's eerie you should post that today, .Beckster (what do I shorten that to?!). We got our new choir music today, and one of the songs we're performing is "in remembrance," and the lyrics are that poem!

thats a beautiful poem ...sorry about your loss.

Thanks becca, you are a doll,

made me feel a little better today.

I love that poem, it's so simple and yet says so much.

I love that poem. When my dad died I loved poems like that. Here is the poem that is my favorite now.


TIME does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side, 5
And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year’s bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide!

There are a hundred places where I fear
To go,—so with his memory they brim! 10
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, “There is no memory of him here!”
And so stand stricken, so remembering him!


~Edna St. Vincent Milay