Death
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 enjoyed together
Play, 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 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 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!
- Canon Henry Scott-Holland, 1847-1918, Canon of St Paul's Cathedral -
Dolphin kept staring at the poem for some time.Taking every word and tasting it with his every breath.Dolphin had always wanted to ask her, where she wanted to have her last breath and whom she would like to have by her side when she was ready to go.
This question had been troubling him lately too.
He felt sad for her.He had already seen the final chapters of her destiny and it was not going to be a pretty end, it was ugly.Only if she knew.He had always wanted to meet her parents, but somehow she always had excuses.He just wanted to ask them what twist of fate or sin had they commited to have given birth to such a daughter.
Christmas and New Year's come and gone. But dolphin still has an emptiness inside, not sure what.Is it sadness, an utter sense of loss.....answers answers, always eluding.
The day he walked out of the house dolphin had decided that he will not allow self-pity to take over him.Dolphin hated the very definition of it.He had almost sacrificed his career for the cause of love.Ya he still remembers the day when he was called into the conference room, and they told him to get ready to go to beyond the seves seas.Dolphin said no, the boss had virtually abused him "Khajoor, kya kar raha hai" :)
oh...those were the days....Great, Dolphin was actually smiling. :)
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 enjoyed together
Play, 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 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 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!
- Canon Henry Scott-Holland, 1847-1918, Canon of St Paul's Cathedral -
Dolphin kept staring at the poem for some time.Taking every word and tasting it with his every breath.Dolphin had always wanted to ask her, where she wanted to have her last breath and whom she would like to have by her side when she was ready to go.
This question had been troubling him lately too.
He felt sad for her.He had already seen the final chapters of her destiny and it was not going to be a pretty end, it was ugly.Only if she knew.He had always wanted to meet her parents, but somehow she always had excuses.He just wanted to ask them what twist of fate or sin had they commited to have given birth to such a daughter.
Christmas and New Year's come and gone. But dolphin still has an emptiness inside, not sure what.Is it sadness, an utter sense of loss.....answers answers, always eluding.
The day he walked out of the house dolphin had decided that he will not allow self-pity to take over him.Dolphin hated the very definition of it.He had almost sacrificed his career for the cause of love.Ya he still remembers the day when he was called into the conference room, and they told him to get ready to go to beyond the seves seas.Dolphin said no, the boss had virtually abused him "Khajoor, kya kar raha hai" :)
oh...those were the days....Great, Dolphin was actually smiling. :)
