1. Remember
Famous Poem
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.
Dying Poems
Poems About Dying
When a family member is dying, the whole family is plunged into despair. It is heartbreaking to see a once active relative lying in a hospital bed hooked up to machines. It is hard to imagine that this is the same individual who was previously so active and full of life. It may feel strange and uncomfortable to spend time with a loved one when they are dying. Most of us feel uncomfortable in the hospital filled with the smells of sickness and death. However, there may be an opportunity to share a moment that you treasure for the rest of your life.
25 Poems for Coping With a Loved One Dying
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Featured Shared Story
In 2022, my 2-year-old cousin passed of covid, and I'm only 13, so it's hard to go through that, so this really hits home.
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2. A Prayer For Mama
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.Featured Shared StoryIn my mom's final hours, I found this poem. I read it to her then, and I read it at her funeral. Words really couldn't express my pain. She put me through a lot. There were a lot of good...
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3. A Final Goodbye
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.Featured Shared StoryLeft at a young at young age I know. You know life takes the best people in the world and those we love the most but, know that her soul is happy and free where she is. She still walks and is...
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4. It's Okay To Go
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.Featured Shared StoryArianna, thank you for sharing your story with me. Stories like yours are why I decided to publish this poem. I am not a highly "religious" person, although I have my own personal...
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5. 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.Featured Shared StoryYeah, 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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6. I Let You Go
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.Featured Shared StoryI absolutely loved this! Short but sweet, this poem has so much meaning and beauty behind it. I am just so touched by this poem, and I can only imagine how much meaning it must have for you...
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7. God Can You Hear Me?
My eyes fill with tears,
And I could hardly see
This cancer is stealing my father
Slowly away from me.Featured Shared StoryThis poem touched my heart in so many ways! I'm writing this through tears. On June 23, 2019, I lost my dad to cancer. I had just gotten to meet him. That sounds odd, I know, but I didn't get...
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8. A Farewell
Famous Poem
Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea,
Thy tribute wave deliver:
No more by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever. -
9. To My Mom
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,Featured Shared StoryI am battling brain cancer. Doctors only gave me 2 months to live; that was 5 years ago. I'm now 36 and have 3 kids who need me. Every day gets harder to keep up the fight, but I can't...
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10. Fading Away
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.Featured Shared StoryI truly am sorry for your loss and the pain and anguish of the situation, I know it first hand. June of 2013, my father, who had arthritis in his neck and shoulders, went in and had xrays and...
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11. Death
Death...I know you're always with us,
Wandering discretely in the background.
Watching...waiting...biding your time,
Ignored, for you make no sound.Featured Shared StoryI like your poem :) I am always afraid of dying. And every time I am reminded of death it send shivers down my spine and I always cry. But now I realize that we should not be afraid of death....
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12. Mother's Illness
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 knowFeatured Shared StoryThank 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...
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13. A Mother's Blessing
If and when that tomorrow may come and I am gone,
You have my blessing to cherish life and carry on.
If you must cry for me, cry only for a little while, -
14. Mommy Don't Go
Fields of love,
rain drops of joy.
You hear friends saying,
you're mommy's little boy.Featured Shared StoryI 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...
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15. Dearest Mother, I Will Always Love You
When dementia creeps in through the back door,
Loving is needed, like never before...
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16. I'll Be There
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.Featured Shared StoryIt's a poem that expresses the depth of human feelings, especially at the verge of separation. It also shares an experience common to all living beings. These reasons make me love this poem.
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17. My Father
My father is ill
And fading away
Still here for a while
And a few more daysFeatured Shared StoryThis 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...
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18. A Touch Of Heaven
Once I glimpsed another world,
gilded streams of light unfurled,
incandescent trails of wonder
blew my present world asunder.Featured Shared StoryThank you so much for your lovely comment - it means a great deal to me.
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19. Floundering
Emotion. Less.
A tall order of contradictions
Compassion
SpaceFeatured Shared StoryI had a beautiful, loving, great marriage for 26 years to my husband. His name was Rick and he was 58 years old. I lost him to Esophageal and Spinal Cancer 5 years ago. I still feel like it...
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20. Battling Cancer
Feeling tired
Feeling weak
With all the pain you do not seek
Featured Shared StoryI 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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