I'LL GREET THE DAWN

I'LL GREET THE DAWN

When I am laid away and all is done --
my journal closed, and all my last words said --
I'll greet the dawn, and not the setting sun.

Don't grieve for me, for in the longer run,
(Though friends may softly murmur, "He is dead."
When I am laid away and all is done),

I'll find a new adventure just begun
when soul and spirit will be fin'lly wed.
I'll greet the dawn, and not the setting sun.

I can't believe I'll face oblivion
As heart beat stops, and consciousness has fled,
when I am laid away and all is done.

I'll enter the bright land of Halcyon
where all my troubles will be quieted.
I'll greet the dawn, and not the setting sun.

It is not death that robs life of its fun,
But rather darkness of the soul instead.
When I am laid away and all is done,
I'll greet the dawn, and not the setting sun.

---William J. Middleton, Ph.D.