Sunday, February 24, 2008

Saying Goodbye

I went to two different funeral homes this evening. My sister-in-law lost a really good friend. I guess he had a big family because the room was packed with people young and old. Everyone was gathered in the front of the room and everyone was talking and laughing telling stories about Billy.
He was an outgoing person who loved life. Two large paneled TV's hung at either corner in the front and blinked Billy's life in pictures. A long life filled with a lot of joy.
By contrast, I went the another funeral home to pay our last respects to a cousin. He died young at only 28 years old. I had not seen him in many years but the people gathered there were much more subdued. It seemed most of the people were lost in their thoughts. I'm sure most were thinking that 28 is much to young to die...too much life left un-lived.
It is hard when we lose our friends and family but it seems it is especially hard when they go so young.
Paul Thorn has a song called "Angel Too Soon" that I think describes this to a tee:

In a little white house,
On a blacktop road
In her sleep is where she died,
She walked through a tunnel
With a light at the end,
And swam across the river of life
God gave her a mansion,
On a hill in heaven
And her wings that afternoon,
The preacher said
She's in a better place,
But if you want to know the truth
She's an angel too soon,

A pretty flower that never bloomed
Somewhere on the other side
Of the moon
She's an angel too soon

Around the house there's an emptiness
But her room still looks the same
There's heart-throb posters on the wall
And a Barbie makeup case
Today would have been her birthday
So her mama made her favorite cake
She wasn't there to blow out the candles
But daddy lit 'em anyway

She's an angel too soon
A pretty flower that never bloomed
Somewhere on the other side
Of the moon
She's an angel too soon

It's so hard for us to understand
Why she was taken away
But if we could see her spread her wings
Maybe then we wouldn't say
She's an angel too soon

A pretty flower that never bloomed
Somewhere on the other side
Of the moon
She's an angel too soon
She's an angel too soon

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