For John

From the skies of Colorado to the rivers of Shanghai,

A starving child in Africa, you passed nobody by.

You touched the lives of everyone, our hearts you filled with cheer,

Days were warm with sunshine and your love was always here.

There was magic in your music, compassion in your song,

But God closed the final curtain , your time on earth was gone.

So many hearts were broken, but so many friends were made,

Hands joined across the nations, in love, for peace we prayed.

To far off lands we travel, seeing places that you loved

And everywhere around us, your spirit from above.

We can feel you walk beside us, the pathways of our years,

To laugh with us and guide us, to wash away our tears.

If we forever live our lives in the verses of your song,

We’ll find the way, a reason, the place where we belong,

For in every shining star in the darkness of the skies,

There’s a memory, a melody and a song that never dies.