​NOT DEAD

YOU are not dead, your voice speaks to ,me ever
⁠ bids me know you living and still near
Death is not death that has no power to sever
⁠One strand of the love that holds you ever dear.

You are not dead, I joy in your freed spirit!
⁠I fear no longer death or solitude;
The immortality you do inherit
⁠You share with me in all its plenitude.