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Description Dedicated to all who grieve remembering love, loss, and life along the dark echoed chambers of their heart.
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Funeral Blues

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He (She) is Dead
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policeman wear black cotton gloves.

He (She) was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week, my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song:
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out everyone;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
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Funeral Blues

by W. A. Auden
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Comments: 3

americananie [2012-06-03 19:58:58 +0000 UTC]

This bring about so many feelings for me. I keep coming back to just read it...
It is beautiful, and Auden writes in such a way that I really feel, on this level, he understands what true pain is..
Such as this, such as is all great losses...

This is now one of my favorites of all time--probably my most favorite.
I can't help but come back and take a good look at least once each day.
It calms me; it allows me some time to grieve.

Thank you for this, Jon. This is the best thing I've read since her passing.
This is the one time that I felt understood--not just merely pitied.

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shapsjo In reply to americananie [2012-06-04 01:23:09 +0000 UTC]

They say time heals all wounds, but it doesn't...not exactly.
Time changes things. Many years ago, a teacher told us that time and space are not
as we perceive it but rather an infinate intersection of time-space traveling and
extending in all directions forever (some call it string-theory now).

When I think of those I have lost and loved, I wonder where they are now and try to remember
that is we, the living, that remain, but they have become eternal.

I hope you find some peace in both the acceptence of grief and the changes that it can create.

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shapsjo [2012-06-02 01:36:30 +0000 UTC]

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