Re: A friend who recently passed away...
Matthew - I don't have any amazing words to take away your pain and your friend's family's loss. Not sure why bad things happen to good people... Will keep everyone in my family's thoughts and prayers.
I am standing by the seashore
A ship at my side,
Spreads her white sails in the morning breeze and heads for the blue ocean
She is an object of beauty and strength
And I stand and watch her
Until at length she hangs like a tiny speck of a white cloud
Just where the sea and sky
Come down to mingle with each other
And then someone at my side says
"There, she's gone"
Gone where?
Gone from my side, that is all
She is just as large in mast and hull and spar
And just as able to bear her load of living freight to the
Place of her destination
As she was when she left my side,
Her diminished size is in me, not in her!
And just at the moment when someone at my side side says
"There she's gone."
There are other eyes watching her coming
And ready to take up the glad shout
"There, she's coming."
Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918)