Already said goodbye (joni's funeral)

Time for the funeral
Speeches to the dead
Shedding tears of sorrow
Remember times of laughter
Speaking final thoughts
Then burying the remains

Refuse to show emotion
There’s nothing left to feel
Trying so hard to deny
The emptiness inside
But faith will lift you up
And one day set you free

Cannot experience sympathy
This ceremony is pointless
She died before this moment
The death being mourned
Was only the stopping of breath
Not of life

Her soul had previously left her
When words couldn't escape
Memories were forgotten
And recognition was impossible
The essence of her ended
With the inability to smile

Today grieve only of the lose of a body
A farewell it should not be
I said goodbye to her
When she drifted away from this earth
Long ago
It was when she had nothing more
But the pain and prayer
It was then that she left me