Guiding light

She was your day and night

Your heart’s delight

An ever glowing spark of light

That lit up your heart

A guiding star to show you

This

The truest, deepest gifts of love

The love you shared was like a flame

Gently burning

Always enabling you

A return to love

You were strong and brave

To endure the storms

Life sent your way

To be tenacious

And bear the challenges

That could so easily have torn

Less courageous, constant and caring partners

Apart

There are the devastating endings

We have to face

Times when the Grim Reaper appears

And shows the dark side of his face

And then there is the falling into that

Full to the brim

Place of loss

Of hurting

Of grief

And loneliness

And yet out of this you lit a spark

To guide your soul

Through darkest nights

As you commit your days

To finding a thousand ways

To tell the tale of your love

Thank you for the friendship

For someone

Who has also

Known loss

Thank you for the poems and the photos

My world would be so much emptier without you in it

And today I send you love

As you remember her

As well as the precious gift of the love you shared

That with stood every test

For this I know without a doubt

Even death

Is not an ending

For the song of love and life lives on

And nothing this world

Can part your souls

For ever

For my dear friend, Ivor