Three months later, Tony was driven home in his car from a party. The driver, later found to be intoxicated, had missed a stop sign at a dead end road. The passenger side of the car slammed into a tree and rolled over into a canal. Tony died instantly, leaving many grieving family members and friends.
Though I am dead, grieve not for me with tears,
Think not death with sorrow and fears,
I am so near that every tear you shed
Touches and tortures me, though you think me dead
But when you laugh and sing in glad delight
My soul is lifted upward to the Light;
Laugh and be glad, for all that Life is giving,
And, I though dead, will share your joy in Living.
I am not there, I do not sleep
I am a thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glints on snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain
I am the gentle autumn's rain
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight
I am the soft stars that shine at night
Do not stand at my bier and cry
I am not there, I did not die
~Native North American Prayer
Patience for the small ones;
When you have laboriously accomplished
Your daily task
Go to sleep in peace...God is awake
My Immortal by Evanescence.
Lyrics:
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
CHORUS:
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me
(CHORUS)
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
And though your still with me
I've been alone all along
