“Though I am dead, mourn not for me with tears,
Death is no time for sorrowing and fear.
I am so near that every tear you shed
Touches and tortures me, though you think me dead.
But when you laugh and sing in glad delight
My soul is lifted upward to the light.
So smile and be glad for all that life has given me
And I, though dead, will share you joy in living.”
Alex
Rod
22nd May 2016