Days of Grace Remembered - For Mary Helen

There was a peace, a deeply seated peace,

In all the days I watched her slowly die

And even through the pain it did not cease,

The bond of His all-knowing surety.

But calm eludes me now, has slowly fled

And left me in the hands of lonely grief.

Humbled by the tributes I have read

To her who strove with me in one belief

That love is answer to the spirit's call,

And time shall heal the human heart of tears,

A life divine arise from body's fall.

My gratitude for all God's joyous years

Bequeathed and all the brilliant days of Grace

Remembered as my fair beloved's face.