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DECEMBER 2003

No Need for Tears
by Joan Constance Croft

Mourn not the Shell when Life's fretting is o'er,

But pray the soul has come to rest
Upon some distant happier shore,
Where love and joy go side by side
And only hurtful things have died.

And do not shed too many tears,
I've wept them all before,
Enough to fill an ocean and standing on the shore,

The waves have washed around my feet
'til my heart could weep no more.
Just throw away my ashes on the sea
That they may ride the waves, and with incoming tides

Rush gaily in the caves, or dash up freely on the rocks

To come teasing back again,
Released at last from inhibition, wasteful doubt and pain.
Mourn not the Shell, Life's fretting is o'er.

Joan Constance Croft has written poetry for some considerable years and has published poems on a number of previous occasions in Education Update. She is now 82 years of age and lives with her husband Ronald, aged 85, a retired Senior Textile Executive and Church Organist and Choirmaster in Bolton, Lancashire, England.

 

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