If Tears Could Build A Stairway

Funeral Poem : If Tears Could Build A Stairway

If tears could build a stairway
and thoughts a memory lane
I'd walk right up to heaven
and bring you home again
No Farewell words were spoken
No time to say good-bye
You were gone before I knew it
And only God knows why.

My heart's still active in sadness
And secret tears still flow
What it meant to lose you
No one can ever know.
But now I know you want us
To mourn for you no more
To remember all the happy times
Life still has much in store.

Since you'll never be forgotten
I pledge to you today
A hallowed place within my heart
Is where you'll always stay.

God knows why, with chilling touch,
Death gathers those we love so much,
And what now seems so strange and dim,
Will all be clear, when we meet Him.
I Knew you for a Moment

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The first stanza says it

The first stanza says it better than i ever could. My tears my thoughts and never having the chance to say goodbye have been the hardest parts to endure. Today is Mothers Day as well as my mothers birthday. Thanks for giving me a way to express what i am truly feeling today. i did not have the words. Thanks!

I just read this poem and it

I just read this poem and it touched my heart so much.. I lost my 22 month daughter June 20,2009 and it seems like it isn't getting any easier... I love you babygirl and I will see you when I get there...

This poem is very sad! If

This poem is very sad! If only tears and thoughts would bring you back... Both of you would have been back! To my beloved Uncle and Cousin I miss you both and someday we will al meet again...

Excuse me. The poem is very

Excuse me. The poem is very beautiful in all but you could at least put it right on there right. My brother Channing Lea Vincent made that poem himself in Sept. of 2007. The "only God knows why" part was because that was the song play at my brother Terry O'Quain's funeral. He made that poem just for him. He doesn't mind if other people use it but he would like to be recinised as the artist.

(Edit By Site Administrator: Sorry Tiffany, but you're wrong about your brother writing this poem. We get lots of people who claim to have written some of the poems with unknown authors, but sometimes all they have done is changed a few lines of an existing poem. If you do a search on Google for "If Tears Could Build a Stairway", and then use the Google sort facility to put them in date order, you will see that the poem was written much earlier than 2007. We did a search back to January 2001, and the poem was certainly on the internet on that date and had already appeared on grave stones.)

Christopher, I love you so

Christopher, I love you so very, very much and I miss you more with each passing second. Why you were taken at such a young age, only God knows. It has only been 2 months, and it seems like forever. We'll be together again someday, with all of my love, Aunt Carol
If Tears Could Build A Stairway

If you have seen the "If

If you have seen the "If Tears Could Build A Stairway" funeral poem on a gravestone, or engraved on an urn, or printed on a funeral programme, we would be pleased to receive comments on the date that you saw it, and any additional information you can provide.

Knowing the earliest date it has been seen, will help us to differentiate between claims to authorship.

I was a senior ofthe

I was a senior ofthe graduating class of 2010 and i picked this poem to go on the back of pour tshirts for a classmate that committed suicide. R.I.P. ur forever in our hearts!

I have chosen this poem for

I have chosen this poem for my dad who die on the 4th of November my sister mother and I all miss him greatly (me aged 15 and my sister aged 12)

We love you Dad and will never forget you
xxxxxxxxxxxx

I know that this is a rare

I know that this is a rare thing to come by, but a friend of mine posted this as a status on facebook for their mother who had passed away.
I thought about the poem for a long time when I suddenly recalled that my grandarents had a copy of If Tears Could Build a Stairway, on their wall. I noticed that it had the signature of F.C. Diprose. My grandfather, wrote this poem for his mother, many years ago and handed it out at her funeral.

Site Admin Edit: Yet another of the many unsubstantiated claims for authership of this poem. The poem appears hundreds of times on Google, but nowhere is it accredited to F. C. Diprose, and a search for F. C. Diprose finds no other poems by him. Sophie; It could be that your grandfather copied out this poem, framed it and put it on his wall with his name under it (signifying that he wrote it out and framed it rather than the fact that he actually composed it). It would be unlikely that the writer of a poem such as this would have written no other poems. There have been so many unsubstantiated claims for authorship of 'If Tears Could Build A Stairway' that the real author will probably never be known with absolute certainty. The poem is probably best just enjoed as the classic it is.

On October 28th, 2010 my

On October 28th, 2010 my mother attended a funeral being held for the daughter of a close friend. When she returned home with the program I noticed that "If Tears Could Build A Stairway" was on the back. As I read it, the words touched me so profoundly that I felt compelled to write a song based (in part) on its wording. After re-reading the poem, I sat down with my guitar and completed the song.

What I didn't know it at the time was that my own father's death was 0nly two weeks away. When I played "If Tears Could Build A Stairway" at my father's funeral, there wasn't a dry eye in the auditorium.

I'll be forever grateful to whomever wrote the poem.

I RECENTLY LOST A CLOSE

I RECENTLY LOST A CLOSE FRIEND.....THOMAS JOHNSON. HE WAS MUCH MORE THAN A MAN , HE WAS A ANGEL AND HE WILL BE SADLY MISSED. GOD BLESS YOU MY FRIEND ....2/8/11 WILL ALWAYS BE A SAD DAY IN MY LIFE.

I have to agree with you

I have to agree with you there. I recently lost a baby girl (Sophia), last month. She passed on before she was born and it still hurts a lot to know that I didn't have a chance to meet her or say good-bye.

I lost my boyfriend 5 months

I lost my boyfriend 5 months ago, he was 35 and just collapsed one day at our home. No words were spoken or a chance for goodbyes he was gone so fast this poem says it all i miss him dearly, until we meet again i love you Drew xxx

sad poem

the first part of the poem was on a stone at my second cousins funeral.and this poem will always stay in my heart and this poem makes me cry,even if its alittle.this is my favorite poem of all times and its just so sad.this is a really good poem.

my only son dropped dead

my only son dropped dead alone in his flat sometime between 30th march and 1st april, her was 41and as yet we still have not got him back. My grandson found this poem and has decided to say this at his funeral which we are hoping will be on 4th may 2011
it is amazing how this one poem can encapsulate all i am feeling right at this moment
many thanks to whoever wrote it.

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