Lets celebrate our lives.

The places we have seen,

the happy times with family,

the things that we have done.

Those special memories,

the pet we loved so well,

the cake that rose,

the flower that bloomed,

the stories that we tell.

 

Lets celebrate our friends,

some here some in our past.

Their kindness shown, the gift of love,

these memories will last.

Remember sunny days

of frost that jeweled a tree.

A puddle splashed with shiny boots,

the humming of a bee.

 

Lets celebrate the lives –

we’ve done our best to live.

With work and love and joyous times,

the best that we could give.

Such thoughts, the threads of life

that make a tapestry, of happy scenes,

the minds eye sees.

Those poignant memories

 

David Garlick, Victoria, June 1991.  

Written for Hospice Victoria.