To Those I Love 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! ~ Isla Paschal Richardson