This is comforting to consider

[maggiesmommy GayLee]

Death is nothing at all

I have only slipped away into the next room
I am I
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 you always used to

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 it always was
let it be spoken without effort
without the trace of a shadow on it
Life means all that it ever meant

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 round the corner
All is well


It helps me to read this...I want it read at my funeral
GayLee
(maggie)

[moremojo]

Beautiful...

Gratefully,
Scott

[Luvlylittlewing]

Death is nothing at all

I have only slipped away into the next room
I am I
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 you always used to

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 it always was
let it be spoken without effort
without the trace of a shadow on it
Life means all that it ever meant

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 round the corner
All is well


It helps me to read this...I want it read at my funeral
GayLee
(maggie)

Brilliant, amazing!  Thanks for sharing!

[tforster]

That really is comforting to think of death that way... thank you!

[Ellemeno]

Gay Lee, thank you for posting those words by Henry Scott Holland.

[mvansand76]

That's beautiful.... Thank you so much... *hug*

[maggiesmommy GayLee]

Gay Lee, thank you for posting those words by Henry Scott Holland.

Yes it was from Canon Henry Scott Holland....what an amazing person he must thave been. I love the insihgt into death. not htat we want to think on it very much, but as we get older, we just naturally do, and wneh someone that you love passes...

Canon Henry Scott Holland, 1847-1918
Canon of St Paul's Cathedral

hopefully you didn't think i was plagerizing the poem!!???

[Brokeback_Dev]

Thank you

[Ellemeno]

hopefully you didn't think i was plagerizing the poem!!???

No, it didn't seem like that at all.  But I'm into crediting.