To Those I Love
If I should ever leave you whom I love,
To go along the Silent Way grieve not,
Nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk
Of me as if I were beside you there.
(I'd come - I'd come, could I but find a way!
But would not tears and grief be barriers?)
And when you hear a song or see a bird I loved,
Please do not let the thought of me be sad
For I am loving you just as I always have.
You were so good to me!
There are so many things I wanted still to do
So many things to say to you.
Remember that I did not fear
It was just leaving you that was so hard to face
We cannot see Beyond but this I know:
I loved you so - 'twas heaven here with you!