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Greta Madge Olsen Bandley
Funeral Program and Poem
Poem (insert to program)
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 are still.
Call me by the old familiar name.
Speak of me in the easy way
which you always used.
Put no difference into 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 it always was.
Let it be spoken without an effort.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
Death is part of life.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you,
for an interval,
somewhere very near,
just around the corner…
All is well.
- Adapted from
Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918)