All is Well

Death is nothing at all... i have only slipped away into the next room
...i am i, and you are you...
Whatever we are to each other, that we are still. Call me by my familiar name, speak to me in the easy way 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. Pray. smile, think of me. Pray for me. Let it be spoken without effort, without the ghost of a shadow on it. 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 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.