13 July 1944 - 31 May 2017

You have now gone on your last journey, darling, and I have to stay here without you. But I will be forever grateful that our paths crossed, we fell in love and walked together, hand-in-hand, for a short while. If only it could have been for longer.  Be at peace, my love, and hamba gashle . . .

You'll never walk alone Barrie / Dad / Bazza.  We love you.

                                       "When I go, my Lovely,
                                       Please try not to cry,
                                       You know I'll be leaving my heart with you -
                                       Could WE ever say goodbye?

                                      The love that's deep within me,
                                      Will reach you from the stars,
                                      You'll feel it from the heavens,
                                      And it will heal your scars".

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Look for me when the tide is high and the gulls are wheeling overhead.

When the autumn wind sweeps the cloudy sky, and one by one the leaves are shed.

Look for me when the trees are bare and the stars are bright in the frosty sky;

When the morning mist hangs on the air, and shorter darker days pass by.  

I am there, where the river flows and salmon leap to a silver moon;

Where the insects hum and the tall grass grows, and sunlight warms the afternoon.

I am there in the busy street  -  I’ll take your hand in the city square;

In the market place where people meet, or in your quiet room - I am there.

I am the love you cannot see, and all I ask is  -  look for me.

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                                                ONE AT REST

            Think of me as one at rest, for me you should not weep.

            I have no pain, no troubled thoughts,for I am just asleep.

            The living, thinking me that was is now forever still.

             But life goes on without me, as time forever will.

             If your heart is heavy now because I've gone away,

             Dwell not long upon it, for none of us can stay.

             To those of you who liked me, I would like thank you all,             

             But to those of you who loved me, I thank YOU the most of all.

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"Those we love don't go away - they are with us every day, unseen and unheard, but always there."

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