Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped
away into the next room.
Whatever we were to
each other, we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the same easy
way you always have.
Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we
enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me,
pray for me.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it
always was. There is absolute
unbroken continuity. Why
should I be out of your mind
because I am out of
your sight? I am but waiting
for you, for an interval,
somewhere very near,
just around the corner.
All is well. Nothing is past.
Nothing has been lost.
One brief moment and all
will be as it was before —
Only better. Infinitely happier.
We will be one, together forever.
