Just found this in a Compassionate Friends newsletter.
DEAR MR HALLMARK
I am writing to you from Heaven, and though it must appear
a rather strange idea, I see everything from here.
I just popped in to visit your stores to find a card
a card of love for my Mother, as this day, for her is hard.
There must be some mistake, I thought, every card you could imagine.
except I could not find a card from a child who lives in Heaven.
She is still a Mother too, no matter where I reside.
I had to leave, she understands, but oh the tears she's cried.
I thought that if I wrote to you that you would come to know
that though I live in Heaven now, I still love my Mother so.
She talks with me, and dreams with me, we still share laughter too,
memories are our way of speaking now, would you see what you could do?
My Mother carries me in her heart, her tears she hides from sight
She writes poems to honour me, sometimes far into the night.
She plants flowers in my garden, there my living memory dwells
and writes to other grieving parents trying to ease their pain as well.
So you see, Mr Hallmark, though I no longer live on earth
I must find a way to remind her of her wondrous worth
She needs to be honoured, and remembered too
just as the children on earth will do.
Thank you, Mr Hallmark, I know you'll do your best
I have done all I can do, to you I'll leave the rest.
Find a way to tell her, how much she means to me
until I can do it for myself, when she joins me in eternity.
Jody Selheimer, Johannesburg Compassionate Friends.