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Requiem
When I am gone


When I am gone,my many friends,

And those I loved so dear,

Don’t sit there with a woeful face

Or eyes so full of tear.

By all means shed a tear or two

Or maybe three or four.

For grief to quickly pass away

There has to be a door

.But do not dwell too long this way

All life must carry on

And too much time spent in the past

Will never make you strong



The body is a casket

For all our thoughts to grow

A means to help each other

And seeds anew to sow

Our brain to help the future

Will die when we are gone

But all we thought and all we taught

Will always carry on



So when you look back in the past

Remember I’m still there

There may not be a body

But my thoughts will fill the air

2008

Robert John Ponting
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