For Ryan

Love never disappears for death is a non-event;
I have merely retired to the room next door.
You and I are the same; what we were for each other, we still are.
Speak to me as you always have, do not use a different tone, do not be sad.
Continue to laugh at what made us laugh.
Smile and think of me.
Life means what it has alway meant.
The link is not severed.
Why should I be out of your soul if I am out of your sight?
I will wait for you. I am not here, but just on the other side of this path.
You see, all is well.

-- St. Augustine

Life is eternal; and love is immortal;
And death is only a horizon;
And a horizon is nothing
Save the limit of our sight.

-- Rossiter Worthington Raymond