Hope!! Inwards Retentiveness Of My Blood Brother John

Death is nada at all.
I possess got alone slipped away to the adjacent room.
I am I as well as yous are you.
Whatever nosotros were to each other,
That, nosotros yet are.

Call me past times my former familiar name.
Speak to me inwards the slowly way
which yous ever used.
Put no departure into your tone.

Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh equally nosotros ever laughed
at the footling jokes nosotros enjoyed together.
Play, smile, recollect of me. Pray for me.
Let my refer survive ever the household word
that it ever was.
Let it survive spoken without effect.
Without the delineate of a shadow on it.

Life agency all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
Why should I survive out of mind

because I am out of sight?

I am but waiting for you,
for an interval,
somewhere real near,
just circular the corner.

All is well. 

      Henry Scott Holland


I wanted to portion this poesy form inwards retentiveness of my blood brother John, who passed away final calendar week later a 10 month battle amongst multiple myeloma. Although John was the oldest as well as I was the youngest of our 4 siblings, I experience similar I possess got lost my twin. His obituary reads, "John was a philosopher as well as avid reader. He loved cats, naps, the beach, sweets of all kinds as well as nigh of all, joking."



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