DEATH IS NOTHING

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 to.

Put no difference into your tone,

Wear no forced air of

solemnity of sorrow.

What is this death, but a

Negligible accident?

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.