Dying Poems

1. A Prayer For Mama

• By Kathy J. Parenteau
• Published by Family Friend Poems December 2011 with permission of the Author.

My dear sweet heavenly father, I come to you today
with faith and hope; I ask, send an angel Mama's way.
I know her time is near and soon you'll take her home
to stroll across the streets of gold where other angels roam.

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2. It's Okay To Go

• By Lori Daoust
• Published by Family Friend Poems April 2012 with permission of the Author.

You were sick and tired and we all knew
that God would soon come to take you.
You fought so hard, so very long,
but through the pain, you stayed strong.

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3. Remember

Famous Poem

• By Christina Rossetti

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.

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4. Because I Could Not Stop For Death

Famous Poem

• By Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

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5. Mommy Don't Go

• By Lauren M. Duncan
• Published by Family Friend Poems February 2006 with permission of the Author.

Fields of love,
rain drops of joy.
You hear friends saying,
you're mommy's little boy.

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6. To My Mom

• By Jennifer Correa
• Published by Family Friend Poems December 2013 with permission of the Author.

In your eyes I see the pain,
Slowly the tears roll down, they won't refrain.

I look down to the floor as if I'm hiding,

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7. God Can You Hear Me?

• By Jamie A. Cirello
• Published by Family Friend Poems May 2014 with permission of the Author.

My eyes fill with tears,
And I could hardly see
This cancer is stealing my father
Slowly away from me.

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8. Mother's Illness

• By Sherry L. DeBarge
• Published by Family Friend Poems February 2006 with permission of the Author.

So many thoughts I would like to say
As I lie in silence another day
People come, people go
I am alone with my thoughts you know

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9. A Final Goodbye

• By Betty Janko
• Published by Family Friend Poems July 2016 with permission of the Author.

Do not weep for me, for I will soon be gone.
My body may die, but my soul will live on.
Perhaps up to heaven, maybe eternity,
or be reborn as another, when I am set free.

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11. I Let You Go

• By Jane E. White
• Published by Family Friend Poems August 2019 with permission of the Author.

I send you to the restless sun
Awaiting your sweet shine,
And in between this world and next
I'll hold your hand in mine.

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12. Death

• By Wallii M
• Published by Family Friend Poems April 2015 with permission of the Author.

Death...I know you're always with us,
Wandering discretely in the background.
Watching...waiting...biding your time,
Ignored, for you make no sound.

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13. Fading Away

• By Ruth M. Regan
• Published by Family Friend Poems May 2018 with permission of the Author.

Fading away, vibrant color to hue.
Fading away, disappearing from view.
Heartbreaking symptoms, watched by heartbroken eyes.
A face filled with sorrow, a chest full of sighs.

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14. My Father

• By Lizzette Cambron
• Published by Family Friend Poems July 2006 with permission of the Author.

My father is ill
And fading away
Still here for a while
And a few more days

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15. Battling Cancer

• By Heather Weitz
• Published by Family Friend Poems January 2011 with permission of the Author.

Feeling tired
Feeling weak
With all the pain you do not seek

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17. I'll Be There

• By Danny Henry
• Published by Family Friend Poems June 2019 with permission of the Author.

As the old man lay there, smiling
at that small and wrinkled face,
he knew his life was over
and it was time to leave this place.

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18. Mother And Son

• By Tim O''Connor
• Published by Family Friend Poems January 2014 with permission of the Author.

A tired woman filled with fear,
Her angry child sheds a tear.
A last embrace consoles the soul,
While evil forces take their toll.

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20. Floundering

• By Dr. Jamie Y. Marable
• Published by Family Friend Poems August 2015 with permission of the Author.

Emotion. Less.
A tall order of contradictions
Compassion
Space

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