We need to say goodbye although you're with us. We will stand beside your grave, yet you are here. We will miss you terribly and know you miss us. We talk to you as though you live within us, Not changed but simply moved in from outside. We know each day you must a little leave us. But here as always you will be our guide. You were and are and will be, just as ever In many hearts and minds, not only ours. No physical event can such love sever. Death is a dimension, not a line. And so Goodbye does not mean you are gone So long as we still love you, you live on. Adapted for my lovely mum. Goodnight and God bless xxx