Death is nothing
I have only slipped away into the next room
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by my old familiar name
Speak to me in the easy way you always used to.

Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
Let my name be the household word it always was.
Let it be spoken without effort
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolutely 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 has past. Nothing is lost.

One brief moment and all will be as it was before.
only better, infinitely happier
and forever we will be one together.

Henry Scott Holland