To Those I Love – Isla Paschal Richardson

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!