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