Fear Not Death

Oh peaceful sleep what a wonderful adventure

No more dreams of the past or dread of the future

To dream of beauty and rest

At death you have reached the crest.

To lie in peaceful harmony

To await no further agony.

At last to meet those of which you have dreamed

The ones at night of which you have screamed.

Death not to fear

Just the final part of life, one to revere.

Not a chance of return

Nor would one for that to yearn.

At last to be at rest

With those of which you knew best.

Brothers and family of long ago

When will life let us go?

No morbid thoughts do I reveal

For at times this is just how I feel.

We all will travel this way

For on this earth we cannot stay.

But to long for the feeling of relief

Is natural to some that suffer grief.

Fell no pity for the writer of this verse

For within the days to come remember it could have been worse.

Rather look with fond remembrance of he that passed

And know that peace he has found at last.

Oh he will live from day to day

For a while on this earth he must stay.

Brothers of war lives lost so long ago

Up to meet them he also must go.

With friendship and love from God above

Surely then he will find peace and eternal love.

©David R. Alexander

June 15, 2003

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