For E

[quessir]

I have no idea what to say. There are no words, perhaps. I think I'm posting here because for a long time it is the only place where I could see her doing an occasional update. She wasn't on Facebook, she wasn't on PJJ or active on her AIM account. So this is the only place I can think of to post anything. And since there is nothing I can say, I will write something that was written on my grandfather's funeral card, a piece I always found comforting.

Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped 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 always used
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.
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 effect, without the trace of shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was, there is absolute 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.

Farewell to the girl with golden hair. Rest in peace.