EULOGY

 Delivered by Steve Pyke

 These are words that have been given to me by her friends and family

 The way Camilla was

Her first word was moon

She was ecstatic at the sight of a leaf beetle

She would stroke the fur of bees

She had a secret language

She slept amongst  paintings

She knew the presence of absence

She went to Sacred Heart and then St Richards

She could hold her school friends with stories

She could reach into her imagination

She was magical

She was a pixie

She could be both vulnerable and strong

She could play the piano

She had perfect pitch

She wrote poetry

She was caring for others

She took on immense responsibility

With grace and strength of character

She could protect.

She sensed the fragility of others

She knew it in herself

She went to Falmouth

She could give with a photograph

She could see the shadows and the light

She could sit in her own quietness

She filled sketchbooks and notebooks 

She was in the things she made and the words she wrote

She walked with her friends

amongst the skyscrapers of New York

In her green luminous heels

with the yellow bows

She saw Stonehenge as the sun came up

She collected shells on the beach

She loved to swim in the open sea

She could paint fishes

She loved frogs, the lobster and the crab and the sole

She loved to eat lettuce

and be with her dog

She would give away her last cigarette

She could drink wine and throw carrot cake

She could paint small dots at the edges of her almond shaped eyes

She left pink feathers

She was light

She was flickering light and daytime dreams

She dreamed of unicorns with butterfly wings

She saluted the birds

She was superstitious

She believed in signs

She was blue rabbit

She belonged to all things blue

She would dance in the house to the music she loved

She would leave secret messages in shoes and on window ledges

She sang from her thoughts and beliefs

On a pink guitar

She could share with everyone beauty she had seen

She could  fill rooms with wild flowers

She laughed which completed the laughing

She cherished fun and knew all its colours

She would confront her greatest fears

She could face the darkness

She once wrote  “Love everything”

She loved her mother and her sister and all her family

She loved her friends

She loved and was loved by all

She left too soon

She could leave us with memories