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Please help me find a funeral poem

29 replies

CalamityClam · 28/04/2023 20:52

I need something absolutely spot on for a disabled man in his 50s.
He was in a wheelchair, had few words (the ones he knew were not for polite company!) but made a LOT of noise.
He loved music, lights, his brother and the car.
He was hugely loved. I can’t find anything that feels right.
We don’t want anything religious. Humour is good.
Please help if you can.

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dazzlingdeborahrose · 30/04/2023 12:18

We used Fragment by Raymond Carver at my mum's funeral.

And did you get what you wanted from this life even so?
I did.
And what was it you wanted?
To call myself beloved. To feel myself beloved upon this earth

Clawdy · 30/04/2023 12:36

Short but lovely - Raymond Carver's Late Fragment :
"And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth."

99victoria · 30/04/2023 13:06

A friend of mine died recently - unexpectedly in her 50s.

I found the words of Seasons of Love (song from the musical Rent) to be very apt and very moving

Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes,
Five hundred twenty five thousand journeys to plan,
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes,
How do you measure the life of a woman or a man?

In truth that she learned,
Or in times that he cried?
In the bridges he burned,
Or the way that she died?

It's time now, to sing out,
Though the story never ends.
Let's celebrate, remember a year,
In the life of friends.

Remember the love,
(Oh you got to, you got to remember the love)
Remember the love,
(You know that love is a gift from up above)
Remember the love,
(Share love, give love, spread love)
Measure in love,
(Measure, measure your life in love)
Seasons of love,
Seasons of love
(Measure your life, measure your life in love).

SusiePevensie · 30/04/2023 15:30

Yes to Raymond Carver. This one too:

Woke up this morning with
a terrific urge to lie in bed all day
and read. Fought against it for a minute.

Then looked out the window at the rain.
And gave over. Put myself entirely
in the keep of this rainy morning.

Would I live my life over again?
Make the same unforgivable mistakes?
Yes, given half a chance. Yes.

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