***NEXT TO HIM***

NEXT TO HIM

As a fallen soldier was shipped home, his wife

had to have one last night sleeping next to her

husband.

She went into the funeral home and laid down

next to his casket and she spent her last night

next to her husband in his casket.

While laying there she remembered nothing but

the good times they had together.  If there were

any bad times they didn’t even come into her

thoughts.  She just wanted to remember all the

good they shared, nothing else mattered.

As she felt herself getting tired, she played some

of his favorite songs as though he could hear them

and then she fell asleep.

When she woke up she felt that she got the chance

to tell her love good-bye last night.  She felt a peace

in her heart like never before. 

She knows she will see him again in heaven, praising God.

Copyright 2006 by Florence Wiggins & ilovepoetry.com