i recently went to a funeral and a poem was read out called 'The Existence of Love' i really want a copy of this poem and i can't find it anywhere. If anyone could be of any help that would be fantastic.

The Existence of Love



I had thought that your death

was a waste and a destruction,

a pain of grief hardly to be endured.

I am only beginning to learn

that your life was a gift and a growing

and a living left with me.

The desperation of death destroyed the existence of love

but the fact of death

I am learning to look at your life again,

instead of your death and dying

cannot destroy what has been given.

by Marjorie Pizer, (1981) To you the Living, Poems of Bereavement and Loss.

(from Selected Poems 1963-1983, 1984, Pinchyut Press: Sydney)

Here you go



The Existence of Love



I had thought that your death

was a waste and a destruction,

a pain of grief hardly to be endured.

I am only beginning to learn

that your life was a gift and a growing

and a living left with me.

The desperation of death destroyed the existence of love

but the fact of death

I am learning to look at your life again,

instead of your death and dying

cannot destroy what has been given.

by Marjorie Pizer, (1981) To you the Living, Poems of Bereavement and Loss.

(from Selected Poems 1963-1983, 1984, Pinchyut Press: Sydney)