The birds and the breeze in the trees all pause
And for a moment the world is silent
Virginia has gone home

Humming birds sense the change
And they freeze in anticipation
Who will watch us now?

Butterscotch and bittersweet
This hard candy is difficult to swallow
And our Virginia impossible to follow

A selfless soul all the time
She shares her day with Valentine
And gives away her birthdays

But we are not alone
For her memories are with us
As even now she makes us smile

Her laugh engages everyone in the room
And her heart- in full bloom
Echoes love and caring in each person’s life

As we’ve gathered in her memory
Remember all the time we spent together
And smile as she does

The days and nights claim a somber silence
But her voice is an angelic song
Driving away sorrow as she sings to us now

If you listen you can hear it
Saying what each needs to hear
As she understands those she loves

“Carolyn, my precious daughter.”
“Denny, my dearest son.”
“Ginger, my heart is full.”

All those years with us
Holding us, loving us, watching over us
Never a second out of place

Her face glows in the warmth of God’s eternity
She holds her husband’s hand
And walks streets of gold

Surrounded by friends
And longing for nothing
Content in eternity’s grasp

Thinking of us and the time we will spend
Once heavenly reunited
Completely replaces my sorrow

Waves of light washing over me
Andromeda strain and depravity
Pulled to you by fate and rapidly
The only girl in my galaxy

Pulse and plenum
Gravitational duodenum
Pulled to you by fate and vapidly
The only girl in my galaxy

Shifting closer
Spinning continuity
Repelled and dense
A common calamity

Refuge from a tempestuous sea
Drowning in blue rhapsody
It’s mostly just you and me
Handstanding into eternity

Starry Night
Calling in the void transparently
Where she lands and sleeps tonight
Ends every time catastrophically

But it’s late and she dries
The spiral tears in his eyes
Staining the conceit of man
And she holds the world in her hand