I love this poem. It was introduced to me by my Aunt. If there are any readers out there, you may think I am a little morbid since my last post related to death also, but this poem is just one that speaks to me. Hope it reaches you as it did me!
Just Around the Corner
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 still are.
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.
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 trace of a shadow in it.
Life means all that it ever meant,
it is the same as it ever was.
There is unbroken continuity,
why should I be out of mind,
because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you
somewhere very near
just around the corner.
All is Well.
I have known this poem for nearly 5 years and bringing it up stems from a recent conversation I had with a good friend. We were discussing what heaven and hell may be and how each person's "hell" may vary. Based on the conversation we had, I gathered that she has doubts about heaven and what it entails. It may sound naive of me, but I have no doubts that heaven will be...well...heaven. I am not afraid of death nor do I attempt to avoid it. It isn't that I don't find death sad or worth grief and sorrow. It is that I am comfortable with the idea of afterlife. If we have faith in Christ, and he is within our hearts then heaven will provide us with more than we can imagine and further, the best versions of ourselves will be exhibited in this glorious place.
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