We loved you well.
Your earthly journey endeth, So too, an end to suffer. Your soul is free now, and released, Joyous reflections flutter. Despite the fate bestowed on you, your strength endured so long. Although these months we battled, We sing our final song. We’ll miss your presence evermore, takes your place; an empty space. You really were amazing, Love! You did it all with grace. So now to fill that emptiness, with recollections, array. To hold solace to your memory, This and every day. Surf high and free above us, now, Discard that mortal shell. Fear not a future, progress allow; Don’t rue that which befell. At peace you’ll be my loved one, In my heart you’ll always dwell. Your spirit lives among us now, all those who loved you well.
Ali Williams, June 2024
Thank You
Dear Lord
Throughout my Christian pilgrimage, but particularly these last 4 years, you have given me so many things. Strength, courage, determination, resilience, fearlessness. You have shone a light on my faith, calmed my fears and have held my hand in the darkness. You have provided endless opportunities and purpose for my continued faith in your love and care. You have taught me qualities of compassion, patience and kindness which have helped me overcome many of life’s challenges. You have protected Phil by empowering me to be his best guardian and advocate as he fought hard to live another day, for so long. I pray that when he comes to your door, you take his mortal soul into your eternal home with open arms, he is a good and kind man. I pray that I continue to draw strength from my faith in your everlasting love, over the coming weeks and months, as I support those around me on their journey through their grief and loss. Particularly for our sons Nick and Dan, our beloved young men and gifts of God. To afford them the same strength, courage and determination to overcome their difficulties and grow in their faith, to be fearless, secure men, who honour and respect the memory of their Father, always. To support and guide all our family to find peace and grace on each of our new pathways, for which we gratefully give thanks to you, Lord our God, each and every day.
Amen
Ali Williams, June 2024
I will miss you.
I’ll miss you in the morning, when my eyes they first awake. The thoughts of you will fill my mind, my heart will truly ache. I’ll miss you in the garden, when I tend to natures gifts The memories of the times we spent, above me they will drift. I’ll miss you in our messages, so many we have sent Absent from my message list, since your heavenly ascent. I’ll miss you on the calendar,so many things we shared, Those concerts that we went to, when the happy music blared, I’ll miss you when I’m driving, chats together and on the phone, Your love for travel lingers, Though that last trip was alone. I’ll miss you in the afternoon, when sitting in the sun, Thoughts will thread around my heart, of how we had such fun. I’ll miss you in the evening, when the day comes to a close. Our sofa will be empty, I’ll get used to it, I suppose. I’ll miss you when I go to sleep, alone my soul will be. I hope that in my dreams, your face, again I’ll see. I’ll miss you in the night time, love, when sleep surrounds my mind. Your breathing and your warmth of touch, has left me far behind.
Ali Williams, July 2024
Kiss me in the rain.
I remember sitting on the front step, feeling the softness of the warm summer rain. I see the reflections of my mind, of the sadness or the pain. Visions of yesterday, how fast they slip away. But though my dreams have come and gone, there’s one wish I can say. Kiss me in the rain, make me feel like a child again, bring back all those memories. Kiss me in the rain, make me feel like a child again, with the feeling that I get, I don’t even mind if I get wet. And if I drift outside myself, please don’t turn away. I’m searching for the innocence, I’ve lost along the way. Come join me in my fantasy, step out of space and time, there’s only one thing left to do, so if you wouldn’t mind. Kiss me in the rain, make me feel like a child again, bring back all those memories. Kiss me in the rain, make me feel like a child again, with the feeling that I get, I don’t even mind if we get wet.
Barbara Streisand
Chasing Cars
We’ll do it all, everything, on our own. We don’t need anything or anyone.
If I lay here, if I just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world?
I don’t quite know How to say How I feel.
Those three words are said too much, they’re not enough.
If I lay here, if I just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we’re told, before we get too old, show me a garden that’s bursting into life.
Let’s waste time chasing cars around our heads.
I need your grace to remind me to find my own.
If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we’re told, before we get too old, show me a garden that’s bursting into life.
All that I am, all that I ever was, is here in your perfect eyes, they’re all I can see.
I don’t know where, confused about how as well.
Just know that these things will never change for us at all.
If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Snow Patrol
You look wonderful tonight
It’s late in the evening, She’s wondering what clothes to wear
She puts on her makeup, And brushes her long blonde hair
And then she asks me, “Do I look alright?”
And I say, “Yes, you look wonderful tonight”
We go to a party, And everyone turns to see
This beautiful lady, That’s walking around with me
And then she asks me, “Do you feel alright?”
And I say, “Yes, I feel wonderful tonight”, I feel wonderful
Because I see the love light in your eyes, And the wonder of it all
Is that you just don’t realise how much I love you
It’s time to go home now, And I’ve got an aching head
So I give her the car keys, She helps me to bed
And then I tell her, as I turn out the light
I say, “My darling, you are wonderful tonight”
Oh my darling, you are wonderful tonight.
Eric Clapton