Life Is Forever, Death Is a Dream

If we did not go to sleep at night

We’d never awaken to see the light.

And the joy of watching a new day break

Or meeting the dawn by some quiet lake,

Would never be ours unless we slept

While God and all His angels kept,

A vigil through this “little death”

That’s over with the morning’s breath.

And death, too, is a time of sleeping

For those who died are in God’s keeping.

And there’s a sunrise for each soul,

For life, not death is God’s promised goal.

So trust God’s promise and doubt Him never.

For only through death can man live forever!