For all who have gone before us.

[Guy_b_g]

My Grandparents, who both died a few months apart in 2000, are buried under this poem.

My first ride on a motorcycle was behind my Grandfather on a Honda trail 90 in the woods of Eastern Oregon. He was trying to restore a 1940's military Harley until not too long before he died. They lent me the money to buy my first street bike when I was 17.

They weren't religious folks, but they were spiritual.

I never met any of the people who have passed away here, but I think this is appropriate to all.

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am in a thousand winds that blow,
I am the softly falling snow.
I am the gentle showers of rain,
I am the fields of ripening grain.
I am in the morning hush,
I am in the graceful rush
Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
I am the starshine of the night.
I am in the flowers that bloom,
I am in a quiet room.
I am in the birds that sing,
I am in each lovely thing.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there. I do not die.

---Mary Elizabeth Frye---

[Yahman]

I had forgotten about that poem. Thanks for posting it.

Larry

[Guy_b_g]

You are welcome, Larry

I was in in the Army in Bosnia when my Grandfather died, and wasn't able to be there for the interment of his ashes at the grave site. My grandmother had a stroke a few weeks later, and I got to visit her once before she died shortly after.

When she died I flew home from Ft. Riley, Kansas to Pendleton, Oregon and my sister and I (just the two of us) took her ashes to the grave site and sat and quietly talked, remembering both of them, before putting her ashes to rest beneath the single headstone shared by my Grandfather.

That was the first time I ever saw that poem, and it really touched me.

[Wildkat]

Your timing is amazing...
After Lee's passing and the current situation that my family is in watching my Mom slowly pass away in a Hospice unit... it certainly helps to remember that poem....

Thank you for posting it Guy

[Guy_b_g]

Kat,

I am very sorry to hear that your Mom passed away, I just read it in another thread. You, John and your family have my condolences.

I am glad you took some comfort from the poem.

My sympathy,

[Wildkat]

Thank you Guy

I guess I didn't realize just how great your timing was when I first posted to this thread this morning...

Definitely fitting

Thank you again