Soul New-Formed

She walks no more in beauty by my side

As in the days when autumn's colours flew,

Through all the seasons of her life denied

No lovely thing its place and in the few

And faltering moments when the cancer grew

Consuming flesh, still she smiled through pain

For in her spirit's secret heart she knew

That love would last and joy be ours again.

For death the temporal God gives us release

From bodies worn that soul itself renew,

Recharged in strength return from realms of peace

New-formed in light and robed in golden hue.