This is an excerpt from a series of poems entitled ‘ The Prophet’ written by Kahil Gibran. These words were used in a Narrabundah play in 2001 and they mean alot to many of Odette's friends.

Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with you.
It was but yesterday we met in a dream.
You have sung to me in my aloneness, and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky.
But now our sleep has fled and our dream is over, and it is no longer dawn.
The noontide is upon us and our half waking has turned to fuller day, and we must part.
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.
And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky.

Readings

• "Shall I compare the to a summers day" by Shakespeare (read at Canberra memorial service)
• "Si mes vers avaient des ailes" / "If my verses had wings" by Victor Hugo (read at Lyon memorial service)

Music

• Panis Angelicus, composed by St Thomas Aquinas (played at Lyon and Canberra memorial services)
• Uncommon life by Jewel (sung by a group of Odette's friends at Canberra memorial service)
• Reckoner by Radiohead (played at Lyon memorial service)
• Gabriel by Lamb (played at Lyon memorial service)