Do not go worried
Do not go worried into that good night
Old age can brighten up each start of day
Take, take the blessing of the evening Light
Embrace a morrow when the sun shines bright.
There comes a time to set down arms
Against the fight for life when death
Is but the gentle friend that takes us
To the other side where sorrow dies.
Where life continues on, but differently
Where all that’s left of us is love
Spinning towards remote infinity
As we embrace a new eternity.
There comes a time for sweet surrender
To relax and slip into the slumber
The day is done and work is over
Work clothes lay tidy in the corner.
The time has come to walk into the Light
That has guided us by day and night
Everything we’ve borrowed now returned
As we pass with nothing whence we came.
Freed of all possessions that weigh us down
Up the soul can rise like featherdown
Embraced by bonds of concern and care
Tethered tight to those whose love we share.
With thanks/apologies to Dylan Thomas and Cardinal Newman.
