I need a poem..ASAP!? (Lost loved one)?

Question

Monday I lost an uncle that was very very close to me. He practically raised me until my father came back when I was 16. I need a poem to read at his memorial service. Please help?! I appreciate it!

Answer 1

Funeral Blues

W. H. Auden

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,

Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,

Silence the pianos and with muffled drum

Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead

Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,

Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,

Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;

I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;

Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;

Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.

For nothing now can ever come to any good.

(it's in the movie four weddings and a funeral.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_a-eXIoy...

Answer 2

Don't think of him as gone away

his journey's just begun

life holds so many facets

this earth is only one.

Just think of him as resting

from the sorrows and the tears

in a place of warmth and comfort

where there are no days and years.

Think how he must be wishing

that we could know today

how nothing but our sadness

can really pass away.

And think of him as living

in the hearts of those he touched

for nothing loved is ever lost

and he was loved so much.