Poem About Death

Read at Mother's funeral 2010

By

Melinda Everett

2008

Petals in a river stream

Follow along in a watery dream

Each one from a bright flower

That after time lost it's earthly power

So, they fall into the bubbly course

Along the way they pulse through

Making a bridge for life anew

The leaves from trees are the same

They fall into the liquid frame

Where they end it's hard to tell

The mystery the same as they fell

Matter and energy never die

It changes from earth to sky

Same as the flower and tree

They simply become infinitely free

The plan of life in a constant balance

To keep the realm in perfect order

It begins, grows, and ends

From frail to immortal we all flow

To our Genesis source, our energy the same

But we become something entirely new.