  Light a Candle by Paul Alexander  And I will light a candle for you. To shatter all the darkness and bless the times we knew. Like a beacon in the night The flame will burn bright and guide us on our way. Oh, today I light a candle for you. The seasons come and go, and I'm weary from the change. I keep on moving on, you know it's not the same. And when I'm walking all alone Do you hear me call your name? Do your hear me sing the songs we used to sing? You filled my life with wonder, touched me with surprise, Always saw that something special deep within your eyes. And through the good times and the bad, We carried on with pride. I hold onto the love and life we knew. And I will light a candle for you. To shatter all the darkness and bless the times we knew. Like a beacon in the night The flame will burn bright and guide us on our way. Oh, today I light a candle for you. A Day Like Any Other Author unknown A day like any other, a month like any other, a year like any other. That is how I live my life now. My love of life, my love of living which I had many years ago is gone. It left me in an instant. It left me and abandoned me never to return. The life I knew and lived before that tragic moment seems so long ago and yet it seems like yesterday. For me time stands still. Nothing and no one can give meaning to my life anymore. Nothing and no one can bring me a moment of joy or a moment of peace. There isn't one second in the almost five years that she disappeared that she is not in my thoughts. There isn't one second of those five years that my heart has not ached so bad that I longed to see her again if only for a moment. Why do I go on? Why don't I end it? At times I feel she is waiting for me. But then I feel so empty and so confused that I can't imagine her waiting for me. Knowing her, she would want me to be happy and live this life I have to the fullest. She would want me to live, love and enjoy every minute. My daughter was an exceptional human being. She was love, she was joy and compassion. I can't let her down. I must continue to honor her life by living mine the best way I can with her in my heart and soul. SONNET 116 William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. I'll See You Again Westlife Always you will be part of me And I will forever feel your strength When I need it most You're gone now, gone but not forgotten I can't say this to your face But I know you hear I'll see you again You never really left I feel you walk beside me I know I'll see you again When I'm lost, I'm missing you like crazy And I tell myself I'm so blessed To have had you in my life, my life I'll see you again You never really left I feel you walk beside me I know I'll see you again When I had the time to tell you I never thought I'd live to see the day When the words I should have said Would come to haunt me In my darkest hour I tell myself I'll see you again I'll see you again You never really left I feel you walk beside me I know I'll see you again I'll see Love Never Dies by Andrew Lloyd Webber glenn Evan Slater Who knows when love begins Who knows what makes it start One day it's simply there Alive inside your heart It slips into your thoughts It infiltrates your soul It takes you by surprise Then seizes full control Try to deny it And try to protest But love won't let you go Once you've been possessed Love never dies Love never falters Once it has spoken Love is yours Love never fades Love never alters Hearts may get broken Love endures And soon as you submit Surrender flesh and bone That love takes on a life Much bigger than your own It uses you at whim And drives you to despair And forces you to feel More joy than you can bear Love gives you pleasure And love brings you pain And yet when both are gone Love will still remain Once it has spoken Love is yours Love never dies Love never alters Hearts may get broken Love endures Hearts may get broken Love never dies Love will continue Love keeps on beating When you're gone Love never dies Once it is in you Life may be fleeting Love lives on Life may be fleeting Love lives on Thinking of You with Love Author Unknown We thought of you with love today, but that is nothing new. We thought about you yesterday, and days before that too. We think of you in silence, we often speak your name. All we have are memories, and your picture in a frame. Your memory is our keepsake, with which we will never part. God has you in His keeping, we have you in our hearts. A million times we've wanted you. A million times we cried. If love could only have saved you, you never would have died. It broke our hearts to lose you. But you didn't go alone. For a part of us went with you... the day God called you Home. David Harkins 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. Je pense à toi le jour Je rêve à toi la nuit Je pense à toi toujours C'est le vide partout où tu n'es pas. Un jour sans toi c'est un ciel sans soleil! Veille sur nous de là-haut tout comme tu le faisais si bien sur cette terre The House is Empty Now by Reverend William E. Gramley The house is empty now, and so am I. The silence is all around me and penetrates my every step. If I listen to music, it pierces my soul and brings up tears on its way out. I see her picture on several walls, giving a momentary glow to days gone by, filling those rooms with love's reflections, as I pass through. I go out and return, but the routine and the voices beyond this place cannot come back with me. I am stripped and searched at the door, humbled as I lean upon the entrance way. I may only take the emptiness in. That doesn't seem necessary, since it abides here anyway. The house is empty now, and so am I. Saying Good-bye Terri McPherson Buckley Endless seeds of sorrow have been planted in my heart They've taken root and sprouted at the thought of us apart But as my tears of sadness cause those tiny seeds to grow, I know one day they'll blossom into memories - row on row. I am not gone Terri McPherson Buckley I am not gone, I am changed. Have faith and please believe me. God did not take me away from you, He split the skies and received me. Now.... I'm an echo in your laughter, a reflection in your tears, an extra thread of strength to help you overcome your fears. I'm an added ray of sunshine, more joy for you to share, a fragrance of the life you live. Wherever you are - I am there. I miss your laughter, fun, and gentleness by Nicholas Gordon I miss your laughter, fun, and gentleness. I miss the things I used to do for you. I miss the time, now filled with emptiness, When each day was a stage for something new. I miss your love, though mine for you remains, A passion with no outlet to the sea, A teardrop in a desert, that contains What's left of my maternal ecstasy. I miss your presence, like a silent chord That anchored even solitude in grace. I miss, for my love's labor, the reward Of seeing some small pleasure in your face. All these I miss, and yet they are all here Within my heart, far more than I can bear. Seek Not My Heart by Kit McCallum Oh gentle winds 'neath moonlit skies, Do not you hear my heartfelt cries? Below the branches, here about, Do not you sense my fear and doubt? Side glistening rivers, sparkling streams, Do not you hear my woeful screams? Upon the meadows, touched with dew, Do not you see my hearts a'skew? Beneath the thousand twinkling stars, Do not you feel my jagged scars? Seek not my mournful heart kind breeze, For you'll not find it 'mongst these trees. It's scattered 'cross the moonlit skies, Accompanied by heartfelt sighs. It's drifting o're the gentle rain, A symbol of my silent pain. It's buried 'neath the meadow fair, Conjoined with all the sorrow there. It's lost among the stars this night, Too far to ease my quiet fright. No gentle winds, seek not my heart, For simply ... it has torn apart. Never Alone by Rodney Belcher I feel you in the morning When at first I awake Your thought is with me With each decision I make You'd been around forever Since the first breath I took Now I have to go on alone But for love, I need not look Cause by what you bestowed In our short time together Will last in my heart Forever and ever Although you've left And now walk above I'm never alone I'm wrapped in your love Enjoy now your long waited reward Feel peace that your love continues on What was taught to me, will be taught to mine Cause you live on in me even after you've gone The Cord Author Unknown We are connected, My child and I, by An invisible cord Not seen by the eye. It's not like the cord That connects us 'til birth This cord can't been seen By any on Earth. This cord does it's work Right from the start. It binds us together Attached to my heart. I know that it's there Though no one can see The invisible cord From my child to me. The strength of this cord Is hard to describe. It can't be destroyed It can't be denied. It's stronger than any cord Man could create It withstands the test Can hold any weight. And though you are gone, Though you're not here with me, The cord is still there But no one can see. It pulls at my heart I am bruised...I am sore, But this cord is my lifeline As never before. I am thankful that God Connects us this way A mother and child Death can't take it away! Lost and Found by Keith Pritchard Loss of a loved one rent my soul. Life lost meaning and blackness reigned. Despair, the destroyer of visions good Ruled like a demon and drained my soul. Loneliness, fear and anguish tarnished the day Making life an existence of pain and despair What's left in a world bereft of her That made my very being alive and whole? To whom can I look for guidance and love? Cousins, friends? - Oh yes they care, But needs spread way beyond this pair Where lies now the path to rightfull joy? Waiting in the wings an unknown friend Perchance to meet and share our dreams. Like me, love and pain inextricably linked. She searches for that indefinable peace. Together we try to make life's journey Sharing thoughts for us alone. Loving, caring, empathy pave the way To inner peace and unknown destiny. The future shrouded in mystery remains An unknown entity not yet revealed. What e'er it brings to her and me I'm grateful - more - for love, for eternity.  by Mary Stevenson, 1936 One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the dark sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand, one beloning to him and the other to the Lord. When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He noticed that many times along the path of his life there was only one set of footprints. He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times in his life. This bothered him and he questioned the Lord about it. "Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you, you'd walk with me all the way. But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life there is only one set of footprints. I don't understand why when I needed you most you would leave me." The Lord replied "My precious, precious child, I love you and would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints in the sand, it was then that I carried you."
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