Dermot C. (Derry) CLARKE

I know it hurt you
It hurt me too
And now that you're gone
All I know is I miss you.

You were there for so long
I never thought you would leave
I thought you had another year
waiting up your sleeve.

The day that you left
was the saddest of my life
I remember sitting at home
Crying all day and all night.

I might be selfish
But I wish you were here
Or if you stayed
For one more year.

I know you love me
and I still love you too
So I'm trying to be strong
Just for you.

I know I'm not perfect
I know I'll never be
I just hope you're just up there
And that you're proud of me.

You had to let go
Even though you were holding on for so long
But there's not a day I don't think of you
And how you were so strong.

I just want to tell you
That you're always in my heart
Even though I still cry
I know we're not apart.

Thinking of you Granddad <3

With Our Deepest Sympathies and Sincere Condolences to all of the Clarke family.

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Death is nothing at all

I have only slipped away into the next room

I am I and you are you

Whatever we were to each other

That we are still

Call me by my old familiar name

Speak to me in the easy way you always used

Put no difference into your tone

Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow

Laugh as we always laughed

At the little jokes we always enjoyed together

Play, smile, think of me, pray for me

Let my name be ever the household word that it always was

Let it be spoken without effort

Without the ghost of a shadow in it

Life means all that it ever meant

It is the same as it ever was

There is absolute unbroken continuity

What is death but a negligible accident?

Why should I be out of mind

Because I am out of sight?

I am waiting for you for an interval

Somewhere very near

Just around the corner

All is well.

Nothing is past; nothing is lost

One brief moment and all will be as it was before

How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!



**Canon Henry Scott-Holland, 1847-1918, Canon of St Paul's Cathedral

A Remarkable Husband, a remarkable father and a remarkable man. Sorely missed, there is a certain peace in knowing that he left the world a far better place by being here.

Just a short note from his loved and loving son Paul.

R.I.P. until we meet again.

My thoughts and prayers are with you all at this time. He will be sadly missed on the road but he is at peace now sorry I can not be with you take care Monica and family