Requiem: 'The Last Poem' Poem by Lorraine Margueritte Gasrel Black

I wrote this poem on All Saints/All Souls Day 1981 and it is dedicated to my brother, Patrick who passed away in1975, and to the memory of many friends and family.


Embarked the journey on your own
The choice in crossroads taken
The tapestry you once wove
The threads are now forsaken

The words you left to me
Heard only by the Saints
The voice from the wilderness calls
No picture you can paint

Although your dreams not realised
Your memory will never fade
And Heaven keeps your secrets
The words you tried to say

From the ashes the Phoenix rose
Your soul which blessed this way
Time's pirates may steal the gold
But memories grace this day

And wide the Portals open
One's life and death the key
The star will reach its zenith
Then quiet the ending will be

The golden path now taken
A key to heroes unsung
To His breath and in loving arms
All your deeds are done

No epic or poet can describe
The peace spent in the final hour
Embrace me stars eternally
A hymn sent to Heaven's flower

While the curtain draws across your eyes
The stars sing their elegy
This last poem I write for you
Are to the words you wrote to me

Weep no more, His love imparts
Peace as the Prophecy
As is written in the scrolls
Reveal the Trinity

Enshrouded as the Vision stares
Look back; Forever sleep
Your star vibrates in unison
Now rest in Heaven's keep

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Amen

As you were given to us and now have part, you will always be in our memories and always in our hearts.