The next place that I go
will be as peaceful and familliar
as a sleepy summer Sunday
and a sweet, untroubled mind.

And yet it won't be anything like any place
I've ever been.. or seen... or even dreamed of
in the place I leave behind.

I won't know where I'm going, and I won't know where I've been
As I tumble through the always
and look back toward the when.

I'll glide behond the rainbows.
I'll drift above the sky.
I'll fly into the wonder,
without ever wondering why.

I won't remember getting there.
Somehow I'll just arrive.
But I'll know that I belong there
and will feel much more alive

than I've ever felt before.
I will be absolutely free
of the things that I held onto
and that were holding onto me.

The next place that I go
will be so quiet and so still
That the whispered song of sweet belonging
will rise up to fill

the listening sky with joyful silence,
and with unheard harmonies
of music made by no one playing
like a hush upon a breeze

There will be no room for darkness
in that place of living light,
Where an ever-dawning morning
pushes back the dying night.

The very air will fill with brilliance,
as the brightly shining sun
And the moon and half a million stars
are married into one.

The next place that I go
won't really be a place at all.
There won't be any seasons--
winter, summer, spring or fall-

Nor a Monday, Nor a Friday,
Nor December, Nor July.
And the seconds will be standing still..
while hours hurry by.

My skin will not be dark or light.
I won't be fat or tall.
The body I once lived in
won't be part of me at all.

I will be perfect.
I will be without a flaw.
I will never make one more mistake,
or break the smallest law.

And the me that was impatient,
or was angry or unkind,
will simply be a memory,
The me I left behind.

I will travel empty-handed.
There is not a single thing I have collected
in my life that I would ever want to bring.
Except
The love of those who loved me
and the warmth of those who cared
The happiness and memories
and magic that we shared.

I will cherish all the friendships
I was fortunate to find,
all the love and all the laughter
in the place I leave behind.

All these good things will go with me.
They will make my spirit glow.
And that light will shine forever
in the next place that I go.

Forever in our Hearts: Fallon, Melanie, Elayne, Shirley, Ruthie and Kathy.

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