TheBanyanTree: The Fourth Anniversary

[NancyIee at aol.com]

Margaret,
 
Your posting has helped me today more than you could ever realize.   This 
past Tuesday, my husband passed away instantly from a horrid  accident.  We 
had spent the morning together, breakfast, then back to his  house to play on 
the computer (he liked to show me his mail, lol) and then we  planned our 
weekend. This weekend.  You see, we had separated some years  ago, and slowly 
were making our way back to each other. We were talking "future"  and 
forever. and I realized that in spite of the crap that separated us, he and  I 
were always, he and I.
 
I am in a million pieces.
 
But, your posting helped, since I still feel him, smell him, hear  him.
 
 
 
The  great and sad mistake of many people is to imagine that those whom  
death
has taken leave us.  They do not leave us.  They  remain.  Where are they?
In darkness?  Oh no!  It is we who  are in darkness.  We do not see them
because the dark cloud envelopes  us, but they see us.  Their beautiful 
eyes,
radiant with glory, are  fixed upon our tear-filled eyes.  Our dead are
invisible to us, but  they are not  absent.