Tears Will Passs

Tears will pass
but love remains.
  The joys you had
are encased by memories
 thoughts of the past.

Tears will pass
 but love remains
 disagreements and frustrations
 are like vapors,
which disappear like morning dew.

 One lifetime is simply a blink in time
 but that one lifetime
 means more to you than words can tell
 because when a loved one is gone
 only a deep hole remains.

 Fill that hole with laughter
 of memories gone by.
 Fill it with that spirit
 you knew so well.

 Fill it with all the moments,
 days and years
 when you felt her presence
 her love, her soul.

 Your tears will pass
 but her love will remain
 gently tucked within you
 where love remains.

 Tears are simply memories
 realized in time
 a physical knowing how much is gone.
 Your tears will pass
 because they also show joy.

   It is the joy of knowing
 her journey begins.
 It begins within your life
 within all you are
 because she gave you life
 a gift so sublime.

 Take take if now
 and spread wide
 tell others of love
 of joy and pain.

 Tell them how
 the passing need not be grim
 but can be filled with peace,
 with love,
 and with tears of happiness.

 Your  tears will dry
 your sorrow will fade
 because where once there was a whole
 is now understood.

 It is filled with the love of a mother,
  the care of a brother
 in the memories of seeing her
 through to the end.

 Tears may come
  and tears may go
 but God placed memories within our hearts
 for moments like these,
 for times like today.

 Remember her fondly then,
 let her go in peace.
 For peace she has found
 peace in abundance.

 A piece we will find,
 for one day we too
 will become memories of love. 

 In loving memory of Nancy Jackman
by Dr. Ronald Bissell