A Poet's Wife Died
A Poet’s Wife Died
By Thomas Newton

I could see she was laying on her back in bed with her arms calmly folded across her stomach in the dim light. It looks as if she is not breathing. I turn on the light and can see her plainly. Oh G-d she is NOT breathing!!!
Maybe it’s just a coma? I look into her calm face and see her wide open clear eyes staring straight up into the heavens. I shine my penlight into her right eye--no pupil movement. I touch her cold hand. She is dead. I kiss her cold forehead in farewell. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of G-d, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. --II Corinthians 5:1
I remember some of her last quotes:
“All my muscles have atrophied.”
“Tom, just leave me alone and let me die.”
“Just let me lay here on the floor until I have enough strength to get up into
the bed by myself.”
THE EMERGENCY ROOM, THE SLOW RECOVERY…
“Tom, thank you for lowering my bed so I can get in and out of it easily
from my wheelchair.”
“Tom, I don‘t have any money and I don’t own anything.”
--A soul is worth 10,000 worlds and you have led many people to the Lord and eternal life. You have a magnificent mansion in the New Jerusalem.
THE CALL TO 911, THE TOUCHING FUNERAL, THE BIG EMPTY HOUSE…
I arranged a medley of 8 songs to honor her and to ease my pain:
1. Stardust by Nat King Cole http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjU6ZjrQulc&spfreload=10%20Message%3A%20Unexpected%20end%20of%20input%20(url%3A%20http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DDjU6ZjrQulc)
2. Twilight Time by The Platters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvRe_pt9XHo&spfreload=10%20Message%3A%20Unexpected%20end%20of%20input%20(url%3A%20http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DwvRe_pt9XHo)
3. Deep Purple by Nino Tempo & April Stevens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkVqCS64joo&spfreload=10%20Message%3A%20Unexpected%20end%20of%20input%20(url%3A%20http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DIkVqCS64joo)
4. Night by Jackie Wilson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ctJX8qmfM&spfreload=10%20Message%3A%20Unexpected%20end%20of%20input%20(url%3A%20http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dh_ctJX8qmfM)
WATCHED THE MOVIE “DOCTOR ZHIVAGO“…
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000NI8F4W/?tag=gocous-20&hvadid=47540274184&hvpos=1o3&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12167513138942129505&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_1pq12tkixj_b
5. Somewhere My Love by The Ray Conniff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thF1ah78a3M&spfreload=10%20Message%3A%20Unexpected%20end%20of%20input%20(url%3A%20http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DthF1ah78a3M)
WATCHED THE MOVIE “MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE”…
http://www.amazon.com/Message-Bottle-Kevin-Costner/dp/B004GF2TJK
6. I’ll Still Love You Then by Anna Nordell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMvncCXfXNY&spfreload=10%20Message%3A%20Unexpected%20end%20of%20input%20(url%3A%20http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DhMvncCXfXNY)
7. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing by The Four Aces http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDtxiNwDS8&spfreload=10%20Message%3A%20Unexpected%20end%20of%20input%20(url%3A%20http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGnDtxiNwDS8)
Some of her ashes were spread to the wind. Perhaps you can reach out and touch her as she floats past.
8. Look For Me by Sharon Rose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej4CrgjGxng