Your Life www.yourlifeassist.com.au Assist [email protected] Funeral Poems, Readings & Quotes Funeral readings help to express the feelings we are facing and are unable to put into words, and can be used to celebrate your loved one’s life or provide comfort to grieving family and friends. We have listed a number of traditional and contemporary poems, readings and quotes, and we hope that they provide you with some inspiration and solace. www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 1 Your Life www.yourlifeassist.com.au Assist [email protected] General – Poems & Readings I thought of You Today She Is Gone (He Is Gone) Author Unknown David Harkins I thought of you with love today but that is nothing new She Is Gone (He Is Gone) I thought about you yesterday and days before that too You can shed tears that she is gone I think of you in silence. I often speak your name Or you can smile because she has lived All I have are memories and your picture in a frame You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back Your memory is my keepsake with which I’ll never part Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left God has you in His keeping I have you in my heart Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her Or you can be full of the love that you shared A million times we`ve wanted you You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday A million times we cried Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday If love could only have saved you You can remember her and only that she is gone you never would have died Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on It broke our hearts to lose you You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back But you didn`t go alone Or you can do what she would want: smile, open your eyes, For a part of us went with you love and go on the day God called you home www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 2 Your Life www.yourlifeassist.com.au Assist [email protected] Miss Me But Let Me Go If Tomorrow Starts Without Me Author Unknown Shortened version written by David Romano When I come to the end of the road When tomorrow starts without me And the sun has set for me and I’m not here to see I want no rites in a gloom filled room If the sun should rise and find your eyes Why cry for a soul set free? filled with tears for me Miss me a little- but not too long I wish so much you wouldn’t cry And not with your head bowed low the way you did today Remember the love that we once shared While thinking of the many things Miss me-but let me go we didn’t get to say For this is a journey we all must take I know how much you love me And each must go alone as much as I love you It’s all a part of the Master’s plan And each time you think of me A step on the road to home I know you’ll miss me too When you are lonely and sick at heart When tomorrow starts without me Go to the friends we know don’t think we’re far apart And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds For every time you think of me Miss me- but let me go I’m right there in your heart www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 3 Your Life www.yourlifeassist.com.au Assist [email protected] Afterglow Her Journey’s Just Begun Helen Lowrie Marshall E Brenneman I’d like the memory of me Don’t think of her as gone away to be a happy one Her journey’s just begun I’d like to leave an afterglow Life holds so many facets of smiles when life is done This earth is only one I’d like to leave and echo whispering down the ways Just think of her as resting Of happy times and laughing From the sorrow and the tears times and bright and sunny days In a place of warmth and comfort I’d like the tears of those who Where there are no days and years grieve, to dry before the sun Of happy memories that I leave Think how she must be wishing When life is done That we could know today How nothing but our sadness can really pass away And think of her as living In the hearts of those she touched For nothing loved is every lost And she was loved so much. www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 4 Your Life www.yourlifeassist.com.au Assist [email protected] Inside Our Dreams The way I feel Jeanne Willis Author Unknown Where do people go to when they die? They say there is a reason, Somewhere down below or in the sky? They say that time will heal, ‘I can’t be sure,’ said Grandad, ‘but it seems But neither time nor reason, They simply set up home inside our dreams Will change the way I feel, No-one knows the heartache, That lies behind my smile, No-one knows how many times, I have broken down and cried, I want to tell you something, So there won’t be any doubt, You’re so wonderful to think of, But so hard to be without. www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 5 Your Life www.yourlifeassist.com.au Assist [email protected] Where do they go to? Legacy of Love KevF Author Unknown Where do they go to, the people who leave? A wife, a mother, a grandma too Are they around us, in the cool evening breeze? This is the legacy we have from you Do they still hear us, and watch us each day? You taught us love and how to fight I’d like you to think of them with us that way You gave us strength, you gave us might A stronger person would be hard to find Where do they go to, when no longer here? And in your heart, you were always kind I think that they stay with us, calming our fear You fought for us all in one way or another Loving us always, holding our hands Not just as a wife not just as a mother Walking beside us, on grass or on sand For all of us you gave your best Now the time has come for you to rest Where do they go to, well it’s my belief So go in peace, you’ve earned your sleep They watch us and help us to cope with our grief Your love in our hearts, we’ll eternally keep They comfort and stay with us, through each of our days Guiding us always through life’s mortal maze www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 6 Your Life www.yourlifeassist.com.au Assist [email protected] So go and run free I’m Free Author Unknown Author Unknown So go and run free with the angels Don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free, I’m following the Dance around the golden clouds path God laid for me For the lord has chosen you to be with him I took his hand when I heard his call, I turned my back And we should feel nothing but proud and left it all Although he has taken you from us I could not stay another day, to laugh, to love, to work, to play And our pain a lifetime will last Tasks left undone must stay that way, I’ve found that Your memory will never escape us peace at the end of the day But make us glad for the time we did have If my parting has left a void, then fill it with remembered joy Your face will always be hidden A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss, ah, yes, these things Deep inside our hearts too I will miss Each precious moment you gave us Be not burdened with times of sorrow, I wish you the Shall never, ever depart sunshine of tomorrow So go and run free with the angels My Life’s been full, I savoured much, good friends, As they sing so tenderly good times, a loved one’ touch And please be sure to tell them Perhaps my time seemed all too brief, don’t lengthen To take good care of you for me it now with undue grief Lift up your heart and share with me, God wanted me now, He set me free www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 7 Your Life www.yourlifeassist.com.au Assist [email protected] Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep Epitaph on a Friend Mary Frye Robert Burns Where do they go to, the people who leave? An honest man here lies at rest Are they around us, in the cool evening breeze? The friend of man, the friend of truth Do they still hear us, and watch us each day? The friend of age, and guide of youth I’d like you to think of them with us that way Few hearts like his, with virtue warm’d Where do they go to, awhen no longer here? Few heads with knowledge so inform’d I think that they stay with us, calming our fear If there’s another world, he lives in bliss Loving us always, holding our hands If there is none, he made the best of this Walking beside us, on grass or on sand Where do they go to, well it’s my belief They watch us and help us to cope with our grief They comfort and stay with us, through each of our days Guiding us always through life’s mortal maze www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 8 Your Life www.yourlifeassist.com.au Assist [email protected] By Herself and Her Friends Poem for Nana Joyce Grenfell Sarah Vine If I should go before the rest of you To my dearest darling Nana Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Up in Heaven, high above Nor when I’m gone speak in a Sunday voice I know today you’re with us all But be the usual selves that I have known And sending all your love Weep if you must, Parting is hell But Life goes on, So sing as well Today we all remember you And bid you one last goodbye Celebrate the life you’ve had And maybe have a cry You’ll never be forgotten Nan I’ll just close my eyes and see Your smiling face and feel your love And you’ll be close to me You had such a long life So many have so less It was your time, the Angels came And placed you with the best So dear Nana, up above Although your no longer here In my heart is where I’ll keep you Forever, you’ll be near www.yourlifeassist.com.au FUNERAL POEMS, READINGS & QUOTES Page 9 Your Life www.yourlifeassist.com.au Assist [email protected] General – Quotes “There’s a story behind everything.