Last day last word
Obituary day
Faces of those now gone from us
Gone now gone away
Gone and not forgotten
Those we loved the most
But in that old time way of it
Given up the ghost
That’s just a shell
She is not there
I often heard it said
The spirit has departed
A body lies on a bed
The body we will reverence
And lay now in the ground
The spirit is gone we know not where
We hope for heaven bound
The Gospel on this final day
Gives us the words of John
The first words of his Gospel
A word to rely upon
A light that is the light of men
Has shone into this world
And darkness cannot master it
Its power cannot disturb
The first word that God speaks to us
The first word and the last
Jesus of Nazareth
And all that came to pass
The grace and truth we long for
The God we cannot see
Is close to us in Jesus
On this day bend the knee
Brian Fahy
31 December 2021
Erris Poetry 