One at Rest

Author Unknown

Think of me as one at rest
for me you should not weep;
I have no pain no troubled thoughts,
for I am just asleep.

The living thinking me that was
is now forever still,
and life goes on without me now
as time forever will.

If your heart is heavy now
because I've gone away,
dwell not long upon it, friend,
for none of us can stay.

Those of you who liked me,
I sincerely thank you all,
and those of you who loved me
I thank you most of all.

And in my fleeting lifespan,
as time went rushing by,
I found some time to hesitate;
to laugh, to love, to cry.

Matters it now if time began,
if time will ever cease?
I was here, I used it all
and now I am at peace.