I Heard You Talk to Jesus

I heard to talk to Jesus

One year ago today

Even with your dying breath

There was still a lot to say

Though you did not wish to leave

Jesus had called you home

Your body unable to respond

But your soul was free to roam

Speech had been robbed from you

Words we no longer understood

But you carried on a conversation

With the only One who could

I heard you talk to Jesus

His name spoken so clear

A light to warm your bedside

To cut through grief so drear

Did you ask Him questions

To which only angels can attest?

Did you have one final prayer

Before you took your final rest?

Did you protest your time had come

And argue with the Son

About going gently into the night,

About your work being done?

Or did you ask Him to bless

Those you had to leave behind?

To give us strength in days to come

When tears our eyes would blind?

I heard you talk to Jesus

As the night began to wane

Your mumbles a meditation

As you rose above your pain

I wonder what He said

That comforted you so

Were the angels singing a welcome

As Heaven’s light began to glow?

Did you thank Him for your life

For the joy and tears and love?

Were your words a song of praise

As you glimpsed your home above?

Those words we’ll never know

For then your soul took flight

We only know you were not alone

For you talked with Jesus that night