Death <br />The burial <br />Doom, gloom, ending <br />A hatred to God <br />For a treasured lives sending <br />A friendship lost in its beginning <br />The passion for life stops without warning <br />A darkness engulfs the heart, mind and soul <br />The death is so final in earth's archaic role <br />The greatness remembered is multiplied ten to fifty fold <br />They remain watching, helping, and directing you home <br />Friendship, compassion, a loving hand to hold <br />There by your side, times untold <br />The death is earth's ending <br />But an eternal beginning <br />For a friendship <br />Never ending <br />Beginning.<br /><br />Jeff Rushton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cyclical/