Poem For Those Who Have Died: Judah Halevl 12th Century

For Those Who Have Died....

'Tis a fearful thing
To love
What death can touch.
To love, to hope, to dream,
And ah, to lose.
A thing for fools, this,
Love,
But a holy thing,
To love what death can touch.
For your life has lived in me;
Your laugh once lifted me;
Your word was a gift to me.
To remember this brings painful joy.
‘Tis a human thing, love, A holy thing,
To love
What death can touch.


Judah Halevl or
Emanuel of Rome - 12th Century