In Memoriam

IF YOU'RE EVER GOING TO LOVE ME

If you're ever going to love me, love me now, while I can know

All the sweet and tender feelings which from real affection flow.

Love me now, while I am living; do not wait till I am gone

And then chisel it in marble - warm love words on ice-cold stone.

If you've dear, sweet thoughts about me, why not whisper them to me?

Don't you know it would make me happy and as glad as glad can be?

If you wait till I am sleeping, ne'er to waken here again,

There'll be walls of earth between us and I couldn't hear you then.

If you knew someone was thirsting for a drop of water sweet,

Would you be so slow to bring it? Would you step with laggard feet?

There are tender hearts all 'round us who are thirsting for our love;

Why withhold from them what nature makes them crave all else above?

I won't need your kind words when the grass grows o'er my face.
I won't crave your love or kisses in my last low resting place.

So then, if you love me any, if it's but a little bit,

Let me know it now while we are living so I can own and treasure it.

~Author unknown~

In memoriam
Rosline Lam Soo Kean