There's really a poem here This is a poem I wrote last night for my mom's aunt. She was a very amazing lady; a very encouraging and loving Christian. Her funeral was today, and this was just my way of sort of getting out my emotions/giving her a tribute. If God loved you How did you become such a fragment, a tatter? Once I was young and you held me Exclaimed over my coos, tickled and poked this tiny baby Yet the last time--there you were. Once viborous, shaking not with age but life Then so quickly your skin ripened like aged parchment The wrinkles became not signs of care but scars of weakness The hands that fed and nurtured, now only well enough to draw the blankets inward Conserve warmth. Were you cold? Tired as your life chord modulated uneasily into an out of tune diminished? Did you fear Weep for they forced to "get over" you? Or did you only have ears for your Savior? "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." I hope He has given you that But now you've seen Him Pain isn't on your mind. The ache of tiredness less than a distraction You've given it all up to Him now Your sorrow, your frustration, your bitterness Your life And He's taken it all, swallowed it Returned to you what none of your good deeds could earn. Did He say it--"Well done"? Yes. Did it make the anguish worth bearing? What anguish?