DEATH IS NOTHING AT ALL

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
What we still are
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.
Pray, smile, think of me, pray for me,
Let my name be ever the household word
That it always was,
Let it be spoken without effort
Without the trace of a shadow in 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
Somewhere very near,
Just around the corner,
All is well.

Author unknown


Midi playing "It is Well With My Soul"
by
Horatio Gates Spafford