My name is inscribed with yours
Awaiting only the death date.
Last year at this time
We celebrated your 52nd birthday;
Neither of us knew or suspected
This year I would be alone.
I wrote our epitaph in a moment
But found no desire to change it
Paying tribute as it does
To our favorite hymn
Holy, Holy, Holy:
THE HOLINESS OF GOD'S ABIDING LOVE
BROUGHT AMONG US JOY AND LIGHT.
And on the stone a common phrase
TOGETHER FOREVER intertwined.
Our stone quarried in North Carolina
Is Monarch Pink signifying
We were not always dust and ashes
But had our day of vitality as well.
And on the stone is etched a dove with rose in beak
And Jesus, the Good Shepherd, with staff and lamb.
The only thing missing now
Is my dust, my ashes.
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| Sketch by Walt Davis, Stokes Monuments (Orlando) |
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