When I am gone, release me, let me go,
I have so many things to see and do,
You musn’t tie yourself to me in tears,
Be happy that we had so many years.
I gave to you my love, you can only guess,
How much you gave to me in happiness,
I thank you for the love you each have
shown,
So grieve a while if grieve you must,
Then left your grief be comforted by trust,
It’s only for a while we must part,
So bless the memories within your heart,
I won’t be far away, for life goes on,
So if you need me, call and I will come.
Though you can’t see or touch me,
I’ll be near;
And if you listen with your heart you’ll hear,
All my love around you, soft and clear.
And then when you must come this way
alone,
I’ll greet you with a smile and a
“Welcome Home”
We lost a mother with a heart of gold,
How much we miss her can never be told,
She shared our troubles and helped us
along,
If we follow in her footsteps
we will never go wrong.
We miss you from your fireside chair,
Your loving smile and gentle air,
Your vacant place no one can fill,
We miss you mother and always will.
She was a mother so very rare,
Content in her home and always there,
On earth she toiled, in Heaven she rests,
God bless you mother, you were one of the
best.
Each time we look at your picture,
You seem to smile and say,
Don’t be sad but courage take,
And love each other for my sake.
The happy hours we once enjoyed,
How sweet their memory sill,
But death has left a vacant place,
This world can never fill.
We sat beside your bedside,
And watched you fade away;
And though our hearts were breaking,
We knew you could not stay.
What you suffered you told but few,
You did not deserve what you went
through,
Tired and weary, you made no fuss,
But tried so hard to stay with us.
God saw you getting tired
When a cure was not to be
He closed His arms around you
And whispered ‘Come with me’.
We hold you close within our hearts,
And there you shall remain,
To walk with us throughout our lives,
Until we meet again.
If memories bring us closer
We are never far apart
God has you in His keeping
We have you in our hearts.
Remember O Most gracious
Virgin Mary, that never
was it known that anyone
who fled to Thy Protection,
implored Thy help, or sought
Thy intercession, was left unaided.
Inspired with this confidence
I fly unto Thee, O Virgin of Virgins
my Mother; to Thee I come;
before Thee I stand;
sinful and sorrowful
O Mother of the Word
incarnate despise not my petitions,
but in Thy clemency
hear and answer me.
Amen.
Along a road of suffering
You found a little lane
That took you up to Heaven
And ended all your pain.
You may be out of sight,
We may be worlds apart,
But, Remember Mother Dear
You are always in our prayers
And forever in our hearts.
I’d like the memory of me
to be a happy one.
I’d like to leave an afterglow
of smiles when life is done.
whispering softly down the ways,
Of happy times and laughing times
and bright and sunny days.
I’d like the tears of those who grieve
to dry before the sun,
Of happy memories that
I leave when life is done.

Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am a diamonds glint on snow,
I am the gentle autumn’s rain.
When you awaken
In the morning’s hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars
That shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there, I did not die
To my dearest friends and family,
Some things I’d like to say,
First of all to let you know,
That I arrived today.
I’m writing this from Heaven,
Where I dwell with God above,
Where there’s no pain and sadness,
There is just eternal love.
Please don’t be unhappy,
Just because I’m out of sight,
Remember I’m still with you,
Every morning, noon and night.
That day I had to leave you,
When my life on earth was through,
God picked me up, hugged me
and said “I welcome you”.
“It’s good to have you back again,
You were missed while you were gone,
As for your friends and family,
They’ll be here later on”.
I am home in Heaven, dear ones;
Oh, so happy and so bright!
There is perfect joy and beauty
In this everlasting light.
All the pain and grief is over,
every restless tossing passed;
I am now at peace forever,
safely home in Heaven at last.
Did you wonder I so calmly
trod the valley of the shade?
Oh! but Jesus’ love illumined
Every dark and fearful glade.
And He came Himself to meet me
In that way so hard to tread;
and with Jesus’ arm to lean on,
Could I have one doubt or dread?
Then you must not grieve so sorely,
For I love you dearly still:
Try to look beyond earth’s shadow,
Pray to trust our Father’s will.
A little pair of Rosary Beads –
As plain as plain can be.
But only God in heaven knew,
How dear they were to me.
I had them always with me
At every step I took.
At evening when I slumbered,
At morn when I awoke.
In bright and cloudy weather,
In sunshine and in rain.
Happiness or sorrow –
In pleasure or in pain.
It helped me in my struggle,
It reproved me when I sinned.
It’s look of gentle patience,
Rebuked the strife within.
In days of pain and anguish,
The greatest help I knew,
Was to hold my Rosary Beads
Until I calmer grew.
So when the time approached
when I had to die,
My little Rosary Beads
close beside me lie.
That the holy name of Jesus
May be the last I say,
And kissing my sweet Rosary Beads
My soul passed away.