Summer Blog Challenge – 7/2

Share a poem you’ve written or just one you like.

Wow – another easy yet hard prompt.

There are so many beautiful, moving, and even humorous poems that have been written.

Today I’ve chosen this poem, as it is the one that I would like to have read at my funeral.

(And no, I’m not planning on dying anytime soon, I just believe in being prepared.)

Death is Nothing at All

~by Canon Henry Scott-Holland~

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
which you have always used to.
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.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was,
let it be spoken without effect,
without a trace of shadow on 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, 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!