God has given us Mother's and Father's, and Son's and Daughter's to love, <br /> Born in the image of God's likeness, sent down from heaven above, <br /> We hold them in our hands like a rose, Or perhaps a pearl of great price, <br /> Then they walk out of there body, through the door of eternal life, <br /> <br /> When we lose a Mother or Father, or lay our child in the ground, <br /> We know their everlasting spirit, Is gone and no longer around, <br /> Jesus picked their soul like a flower, a rose in the master's bouquet, <br /> They walked out of there body, Jesus came and took them away. <br /> <br /> When a husband or wife are parted, Death is something they should not fear, <br /> What we think is death is eternal life, On this the word is quite clear, <br /> The spiritual body within us, Is everlasting and always shall be, <br /> Obey God's word be an eternal rose, when from our body he sets us free, <br /> <br /> When we give our lives to Jesus, And live according to God's plan, <br /> The son of God will hold us, In the palm of his holy hand, <br /> Except Jesus as your personal Saviour, And in his hands be clay, <br /> Become a rose in the Master's garden, when he comes to take you away, <br /> <br /> God has an everlasting garden, somewhere in the heaven's above, <br /> Where all of our loved ones are living, filled with eternal love, <br /> Waiting for the day we shall meet them, Upon Heaven's golden shore, <br /> And we to become an eternal rose, to be with them forever more,<br /><br />Andrew G. Collins, Sr.<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-eternal-rose/
