To all those who have lost someone they love!

The sonnet, titled Precious in the Sight of the Lord is the Death of His Faithful Saints, Ascending to Eternal Glory, inspired by Psalm 116:15 (KJV) (“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints”), vividly portrays the serene and glorious transition of a saint’s soul from earth to heaven. It uses rich imagery to depict their journey: morning light on sapphire hills, golden beams, and diamond-dappled streams in the first quatrain; a twilight scene with crimson clouds like angels’ wings and starlit gates in the second; and a heavenly realm free of sorrow, filled with crystal anthems and eternal light in the third. The couplet celebrates the saints’ ascent, embraced by divine love in a radiant sky. The poem conveys a sense of peace, reverence, and divine joy at the moment of a saint’s death.

Through amber mists, where dawn’s first rays unfold,
The saint’s last steps trace paths of shimmering dew,
O’er velvet fields where emerald blades enfold,
Their soul takes flight beneath a vault of blue.

In twilight’s glow, with rose and gold entwined,
Soft clouds like cherubs’ wings in silence soar,
The chains of earth, once heavy, now unbind,
As heaven’s pearl gates gleam on yonder shore.

No shadowed vale, no storm’s foreboding cry,
Can veil the radiance of their sacred rest,
In crystal halls where starry anthems fly,
They dwell in peace, by divine love caressed.

O hallowed sight, their spirits rise above,
Enrobed in light, within God’s boundless love.