Poems & Selections

Turn Again to Life

By Mary Lee Hall
If I should die and leave you here a while,
be not like others sore undone,
who keep long vigil by the silent dust.
For my sake turn again to life and smile,
nerving thy heart and trembling hand
to do something to comfort other hearts than thine.
Complete these dear unfinished tasks of mine
and I perchance may therein comfort you

May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
Here, a million wounded souls are yearning just to touch you and be healed; Gather all your people, and hold them to your heart. We remember how you loved us to your death, and still we celebrate, for you are with us here; And we believe that we will see you when you come, in […]
May the blessing of light be on you— light without and light within. May the blessed sunlight shine on you and warm your heart till it glows like a great peat fire.
The day God took you back home you never said you were leaving you never said goodbye. You were gone before we knew it and only God knows why. A million times we needed you a million times we cried. If love alone could have saved you, you never would have died. In life we […]