GONE BUT FREE
We've set you on a journey here tonight
as you go silent, quietly, with grace.
Just lay back now, I think that we're both right
in making this decision in the face
of criticism aimed by those not torn
by pain of body or of witness eye.
There's never been a human being born,
who hasn't wanted painlessly to die.
I've seen your body twist and shrink - oh Lord
forgive me, but I've prayed for his release,
You could have saved him simply with Your Word,
but chose to take him from me, piece by piece.
So sleep my darling, I am here till when
you slip away at last - and after then.