She Is Gone David Harkins 1959

Carol elizabeth williams lakey march 4 1947 march 20 1987 my mom.

She is gone david harkins 1959. You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back or you can open your eyes and see all she has left. Or you can do what she would want. She is gone you can shed tears that she is gone or you can smile because she has lived you can close your eyes and pray that she will come back or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left your heart can. Is the opening line of a piece of popular verse based on a short prose poem remember me written in 1982 by english painter and poet david harkins born 14 november 1958.

Dedicated to three lovely ladies in my life. David harkins 1959 note. An uplifting poem about being grateful for a loved one s life. Smile open your eyes love and go on.

She is gone david harkins you can shed tears that she is gone or you can smile because she has lived. She is gone he is gone popular funeral poem based on a short verse by david harkins. Accidental poet laureate david harkins penned a poem over twenty years ago when he was just a shy brokenhearted cumbrian baker. He is gone you can shed tears that he is gone.

You can remember her and only that she is gone o r you can cherish her memory and let it live on. As it turns out david harkins had written the piece in the early eighties though not as a funeral oration but in homage to an unrequited love. You can cry and close your mind be empty and turn your back o r you can do what she would want. This verse is available in both she is gone he is gone.

Smile open your eyes love and go on. Written by david harkins 1959 leave a reply cancel reply. Or you can do what she would want. Video pdf let me go a short but uplifting funeral poem by famous victorian poet.

I was at the funeral of one of them yesterday and this poem by david harkins was read out. He is gone a poem by david harkins two close friends have recently lost their fathers. Smile open your eyes love and go on. We titled it she is gone and we also modified it for a masculine subject he is gone.