All Is Well

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

Call me 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.

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 shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant ~
It is the same as it ever was...
There is unbroken 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.

(~.~)

Smoke Ring Script by kurt.grigg@virgin.net