EDWARD COPELAND

EDWARD WAS A GENTLE GIANT. HE ALWAYS HAD TIME TO HELP ANYONE. HE WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO HELP STRANGERS AND FAMILY. ANYONE THAT TURNED TO EDWARD FOR HELP GOT IT EVEN IF IT WAS HIS LAST PENNY. EDWARD IS MISSED BY HIS WHOLE FAMILY. HE LEFT SO MANY HEARTS BROKE.

IT'S VERY HARD TO GET UP IN THE MORNING KNOWING HE'S NOT AT HOME ANYMORE, BUT WE KNOW HIS SPIRIT LIVES ON AND FLIES HIGH, ALWAYS AROUND WATCHING OVER HIS FAMILY.

GOD BLESS YOU, MY BROTHER. I LOVE AND MISS YOU SO VERY MUCH. I WILL CARRY YOU ALWAYS IN MY HEART AND IN MY MEMORIES. REST IN PEACE, LITTLE BRO.

BELOW IS A POEM EDWARD WROTE HIMSELF. THIS IS HIS LEGACY No matter what, "I WILL ALWAYS EXIST."

EDWARD'S POEM

They left me a spectre
A ghost of a man I formerly acknowledge as myself
But i still existed

They left me ill prepared for the adjustment that
I am having to complete, I still exist

My family existed, lived and loved as best they could all those years, they still exist

I loved, I still endeavour to do so
for it is my duty, my obligation

I am no longer coloured with the grey
that is the prison parlour of death
I have colours, and a love of happy bright things

The love that i have will see me through
The love of life that i have will overcome
The sentence of death that i have been subjected too

I have always existed, I will always exist
And the memory of me for others will always exist too
They will remember my name

For i have begun

"Arise and shine for your light has come"

Written By Edward V Copeland

Submitted by: LISA COPELAND on December 16, 2005