Gone From My Sight by the Rev. Luther F. Beecher.

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I first encountered this poem when my father passed away. It provided me with great solace.
We often avoid talking about death until we can no longer truly confront it.
If you have experienced or are currently experiencing the loss of a loved one, please believe that there is someone awaiting reunion with them.
And one day, we will all be reunited.
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Gone From My Sight
by the Rev. Luther F. Beecher
I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze,
and starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength.
and I stand and watch her until
she hangs like a speck of white cloud
just where the sea and sky come down to meet and mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says:
“There! She’s gone!”
Gone where?
Gone from my sight -
that is all.
She is just as large in mast and hull and spar
as she was when she left my side,
and just as able to bear her load of living freight
to the place of her destination.
Her diminished size is in me and not in her.
And just at that moment when someone at my side says:
“There! She’s gone!”
there are other eyes that are watching for her coming;
and other voices ready to take up the glad shout:
“There she comes!”
And that is 'dying.'