With Sympathy to AlyAngel

Death is nothing at all

I have only slipped away into the next room

I am I and you are you

Whatever we were to each other, that we still are

Call m by my old familiar name: speak to me in the easy way which you

Always used

Put no difference in your tone: wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together

Let my name be ever the household word that it always was: let it be spoken

Without effect, without the trace of a shadow on it

Life means all that it ever meant

It is the same as it ever was: there is no broken continuity

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

I am waiting for you, for an interval

Somewhere very near, just around the corner

All is well