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 together forever.
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