
One wave short of a shipwreck.
Peacock by Cecil Porter
for something meaningful to write. I wanted to take a break from school and chronicle my journey through my grieving of my father’s death. I have a lot of things to talk about, you know? I need to explore…to feel.
I can’t do it. I can’t bring myself to put into words the emotions that I’ve been feeling lately. I’m not sure if it’s because I want to keep them to myself or because I don’t really know what I’m feeling right now.
Assuredly, though, I feel a loss. A big one.
it’s dark and scary in there!
Let’s just let this go.
Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away to 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 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
that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect.
Without the trace of a shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
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.