To Those I Love, by Isla Paschal Richardson
If I should ever leave you whom I love To go along the silent way grieve not, Nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk Of me as if I were beside you there. (I’d come – I’d come, could I but find a way! But would not tears and grief be barriers?) And when you hear a song or see a bird I loved, please do not let the thought of me Be sad . . . for I am loving you just as I always have . . . You were so good to me! There are so many things I wanted still to do, So many things to say to you . . . Remember that I did not fear . . . it was Just leaving you that was so hard to face . . . We cannot see Beyond . . . But this I know: I loved you so – ’twas heaven here with you!
Thank you for this perfect poem, Ms Vining.
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