A Poem For Your Family / Denise Kneale (none)
I am so sorry for the passing of your handsome son. Here is a poem which was read out at James Celebration Of Life Service in U.K. I hope it will help in some way.
Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped away 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 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 always shared together.
Let my name be ever the household word it always was,
Let it be spoken without effort,
Without the ghost of a shadow in it.
Life means all that it ever meant,
It is the same as it ever was,
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
What is death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind,
Because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for an interval,
Somewhere very near,
Just around the corner.
All is well.
Nothing is past; nothing is lost,
One brief moment and all will be as it was before.
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
Canon Henry-Scott Holland, 1847-1918, Canon Of St Pauls Cathedral
Love, peace and bright blessings to all your family xxx
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