The Legacy of Love

Your loved one has gone
   the pain is beyond tears and words
No-one can release you from
   the torment that remains
What is there left but an empty world?
Life becomes a torturous sentence and the realisation
   that grief is the price of love

You search each dark corner
   hoping, just hoping, for a healing beam of light
Yet in your heart you know it is not to be
   for the hand of life has slipped from your grasp

But the darkness of adversity
  will now become your teacher
and deliver you from a pit of despair
  - Open your eyes, walk outside
and listen to the birds
  Feel the warmth of the sun on your face
then look through your tears of grief
  for they are blinding you to the light that awaits

Finally, remember too that the load you carry
   is the grief engulfed within your heart
But if you leave it with God - safe in
   the knowledge that your loved one now lies
on a bed of perfect peace, tranquillity and love -
   you will walk free; free from pain,
free from the anger, guilt or regret
   that now chain your very soul; for He will
lighten your load and free your mind
   so that it may again clasp the hand of love -
the love that remains in you never to be taken away
   until you meet again - the time, the place
known only unto God

A poem for all those left behind and grieving …. from the Stephensons