Sunday 18 March 2012

Strength

I have a lot to catch up on. I will post the details of this past week or so when I have the strength to re-live it. Today is for Carole. Sing the TEAM SONG LOUD !!!! And read our Team Mission Statement........
Death is Nothing at All        by     Henry Scott Holland


Death is nothing at all    
I have only slipped away to the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we still are.


Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.


Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
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 that it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?


I am but waiting for you.
For an interval.
Somewhere. Very near.
Just around the corner.


All is well.

1 comment:

  1. A lovely poem Juanita.
    Hope you're getting stronger. Thinking of you...
    Gabi

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