In Memory

What is this thing that men call death,
This quiet passing in the night?
'Tis not the end but genesis
Of better worlds and greater light.

O God, touch Thou my aching heart
and calm my troubled, haunting fears
Let hope and faith, transcendent, pure
Give strength and peace beyond my tears.

There is no death, but only change,
With recompernse for victory won.
The gift of Him who loved all men,
The Son of God, the Holy One.
--by Gordon B. Hinckley