![]() ![]() I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one. It’s about how they were when they were alive.Ī comfort to read when you are grieving a friend, they are also beautiful words to write or say goodbye to those you love, towards the end of your life. Written by Helen Lowrie Marshall, Afterglow is a popular remembrance poem, because it captures so much of how a good friend would want to be remembered. A reassuring poem for a friend who’s grieving It can be intepreted as a poem for grieving a friend – or, if you are at the end of life, perhaps be among the words you leave in a legacy letter to a best friend who will deeply miss and grieve you. It says so much about what good friends wish for the people they love. ![]() This beautiful poem, Farewell My Friends, by Rabindranath Tagore is written from the perspective of someone who is dying and ready to say goodbye. ![]() Nor when I’m gone speak in a Sunday voiceīut be the usual selves that I have known One of the most popular poems for grieving a friend, If I Should Go, by Joyce Grenfell is a lovely reminder of how you can remember someone and go on to have happy times, with their blessing – as if they were there. You’ll find more beautiful poems about mourning, remembrance and love in our collection of funeral poetry and verses. These funeral poems for a best friend reflect on some of the emotions you may be feeling after their death, or be a comfort at lonely times when you are missing them. If you are finding it difficult to cope, or want to find out how to support a friend who is grieving, we have lots of helpful information about bereavement support in our Help and Resources pages. “It can be incredibly difficult for people to own their pain and ask for help.” “I often hear from people say: ‘other people were much closer to them, so why should I be taking it so hard?’” she says. If you’re grieving a friend, these poems may be a comfort, or could be your way of telling a grieving friend you’re there for them on their own journey through bereavement. The death of a best friend can mean losing the very person you’d usually talk to in difficult times. ![]()
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