Say not in grief that she is no more
but say in thankfulness that she was
A death is not the extinguishing of a light,
but the putting out of the lamp
because the dawn has come.
– Tagore
Behind Me — dips Eternity –
Before Me — Immortality –
Myself — the Term between –
E Dickenson
I was dead
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