Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep

A resident passed away because of cancer last night but I dont' know how to comfort her family when I called her daughter. She's the resident who asked me to follow up the bamboo case at Shum Wan Road about 3 years ago, I was new to the neighborhood then so I took this case as a kind her trust on me and started following this case(http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/our_wch/searchblog_art?p=%E6%9E%AF%E7%AB%B9&my=1).

I'd talked to her by phone about 2 months ago, knowing that's the very last period of her life, she was fine and cheerful at that time. I visited her in hospital last week and found she was so weak that almost lost her mind and conscience. The scene was sorrowful, but I didn't know how to encourage her family and friends, who were clam and well prepared for what will happen.

I borrow a net friend's message to pay my respect and remember her (http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/our_wch/article?mid=3193) and wish the live have courage to be clam to accept such inevitability.

昨天得知一位居民朋友不幸因病去世，我得知消息後，反應不過來，竟不知如何安慰她家人。我還記得約三年前，當我在黃竹坑展開地區工作沒多久，大家仍未熟知我是誰的時候，她向我反映深灣道枯竹倒下容易傷及途人的問題，這是對我的信任，故我一直跟進至今(http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/our_wch/searchblog_art?p=%E6%9E%AF%E7%AB%B9&my=1)。我上兩個月還在電話裡到聽到她欣喜的聲音，但上星期到醫院探望她的時候，已神志不清；而她的子女、朋友、教友守在一旁，倍她度過最後的時日。雖說大家對她的離去已作好心理準備，但看到她受病魔折魔而虛弱的樣子，難免看了心傷，但我卻沒多說一些鼓勵她子女的話。

想起早前一位網友的留言的詩(http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/our_wch/article?mid=3193)，放到這裡，以致紀念，並願逝者安息，願生者內心平靜，因為面對病魔，你們和她一樣勇敢。

Mary Frye - Do not stand at my grave and weep

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you wake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft starlight at night.

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die