Dear Pope John Paul II
Oh, how so many did love you.

You were a great man
of immense faith and unyielding love,
whose mark was global
and will be long lasting.

Now, you are looking down upon us
with the same loving gleam in your eyes,
comforted in the warm embrace
of God's eternal grace.

David G. Bancroft
Copyright 2005
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