Note from Tammy:
With heavy hearts we gathered together last Saturday to lay to rest my niece's young daughter, Tabitha Michelle English, age 5, and to celebrate her life. Tabitha is the second daughter her brave family has lost, due to the deadly effects of the disease SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy).
One bright point of the service was Tabitha's father's testimony that he knew he would see both his young daughters again, after the resurrection, and that they would be healthy and would be able to run, jump and dance. This poem is not about Tabitha, it is about my Dad's feelings for my mother, but he does include a lovely line in the poem in which he describes a tomorrow he looks forward to, "A new world, all our loved ones there; Mother and Father and children dear." He, like Tabitha's family and many others, are looking forward to the resurrection to reunite them with their loved ones.
This poem is about my dad's relationship with my mom, how the disease of Alzheimer's has separated them, although they are physically together every day, and how he looks forward to being with her again when she is restored to her health after the resurrection.
My Dad says, in the poem, he used lines from the songs in the album "Believe" by the Celtic Woman. See if you can identify them. He says, "The songs in that collection form the framework for my poem and provided the inspiration for what I wrote. I am thoroughly intrigued by those songs because they reflect so much about my life with my sweetheart. I don't know of any other collection of songs that delves so deeply into the essence of life with its days of sunshine and nights of gloom. Hence the title: "The Power of Song."
One bright point of the service was Tabitha's father's testimony that he knew he would see both his young daughters again, after the resurrection, and that they would be healthy and would be able to run, jump and dance. This poem is not about Tabitha, it is about my Dad's feelings for my mother, but he does include a lovely line in the poem in which he describes a tomorrow he looks forward to, "A new world, all our loved ones there; Mother and Father and children dear." He, like Tabitha's family and many others, are looking forward to the resurrection to reunite them with their loved ones.
This poem is about my dad's relationship with my mom, how the disease of Alzheimer's has separated them, although they are physically together every day, and how he looks forward to being with her again when she is restored to her health after the resurrection.
My Dad says, in the poem, he used lines from the songs in the album "Believe" by the Celtic Woman. See if you can identify them. He says, "The songs in that collection form the framework for my poem and provided the inspiration for what I wrote. I am thoroughly intrigued by those songs because they reflect so much about my life with my sweetheart. I don't know of any other collection of songs that delves so deeply into the essence of life with its days of sunshine and nights of gloom. Hence the title: "The Power of Song."
THE POWER OF SONG
Love awakened, two hearts as one.
A life of married bliss they had begun.
The sweetest hours that ‘er I spent
Were with my lassie, oh.
My love for Avon did constantly grow.
Then her memory began to fade;
Fallen away had the years;
The Avon I had known and loved,
Seen now only through heartache and tears.
Tigers came at night
And tore my dreams apart;
Wide waters kept us from each other;
Low, oh terribly low was my heart.
A new road I began to tread;
One I had never known before.
A silent road; blind inside was I.
Stormy weather I would endure
Trying to reach that distant shore.
To reach that person I will always adore.
I need a boat, big and wide
To weather that stormy sea.
One I load deep with all I own;
Not as deep as my love, Avon , for thee.
But now I face reality.
Dreams that cannot be;
Storms I cannot weather;
Who will hear my plea?
Swiftly the years pass;
Still lives my bonnie bride.
Smile, though my heart is breaking;
Smile through tears and sorrow.
At the end of the storm, a golden sky.
Brighter will be that tomorrow.
That tomorrow, like no other.
A tomorrow, after death and mourning.
The night a new day delivers
Waking us; to a new life is pointing.
A new world, all our loved ones there;
Mother and Father and children dear.
All cares and worries disappear.
Our love. firmly together it binds us;
Together again never to part;
Eternal this love; inexpressibly deep.
Bright the future; as one beat two hearts.
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