21. Because I Could Not Stop For Death
Famous Poem
					Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.						
				
Famous Poem
					Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.						
				
Yeah, I agree we don't stop to think that death will come and take us away even when the ones he has taken are staring right at us. My grandma passed away when I was little. I sobbed for hours.
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					Feeling tired    
Feeling weak
With all the pain you do not seek
						
				
I feel every word in this poem.
On June 2, 2010 I was told that I have stage four cancer. Still holding on.
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					My father is ill
And fading away
Still here for a while
And a few more days						
				
This made me cry, such a great poem. My dad has multiple sclerosis and has lived in a nursing home for 16 years. I'm only 20 so almost my whole life he has been in there. I know once he dies...
					Fields of love,
rain drops of joy.
You hear friends saying,
you're mommy's little boy.						
				
I hope your mom pulls through and has many years left to share the things that moms and children do together. I went through something similar, but unfortunately my mom didn't have the...
					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						
				
Thank you for sharing this. This in someway gave me an insight of what my mum went through when she was in the last stages of dying. there were many things I didn't understand in my mother's...