A Death in the Family

Somewhere out there a grandmother passes
   Earth to earth and ashes to ashes
   Their passing is life but also a sadness
Long life lost, loved ones surround
   Softly falling tears the only audible sound
   Heads bowed as the salt hits the ground
Silver hair, wrinkled skin, age percieved
   So much love given and thusly recieved
   But now, she is just waiting to be relieved

At this moment a grandfather falls
   "My heart, it is stopping" is what he calls
   Born things must die, thus are the laws
Survived by children, grandchildren, wife
   The family he worked to build his whole life
   Now that hard work has claimed its price
Peacefully past, small gathering of friends
   Come to see his body off to the end
   The rest of the family will surely fend

Right now a mother does die
   Her family upset, it helps to cry
   There is a reason if wondering why
Cancer her bane, it ate her away
   Her own cells her life did betray
   On this earth, she could no longer stay
Mourning family support one another
   The children so sad at the loss of their mother
   Their lives go on and hopefully recover

A father gives in, he could not hand on
   His body begins to play a new song
   Moving on out unto heaven's lawn
Stroke caught him on a bright Sunday morn
   With his whole family around safe and warm
   This situation for them was the norm
His work respected, a legacy left
   From his future, this feels like a theft
   Leaving a family at home and bereft

A song is destroyed through reckless pursuit
   Lost in testosterone in the height of his youth
   No chance of reaching an age to seek truth
Accident stole his young life away
   At such a fast speed that boy did play
   Now without moving his body doth lay
Great pain and tears his parents express
   He was their only, the part that was best
   They must now accept he is laid down to rest

A young girl tragically lost is the worst
   She was like pure sunshine, now in a hearse
   The youngest should not the die in the first
Like a summer flower, soft, bright, and sweet
   Her life only innocence, no chance for deciept
   The loss of such purity feels like defeat
The animals wail with the birds in the sky
   The whole planet mourns and wonders why
   This sweet little girl was chosen to die

No reason or rhyme can help ease the pain
   Of a loss in the family, naught else is the same
      Either young or old, death doth lay a claim
         The closer the loss the greater the pain

Death is inseperable from living
   As long as there's breathe, we keep on giving
      We must carry on, we are strong beings
         Letting go is so hard, none want bereaving

So sad
   Not bad
      Death for all must be had