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Love Never Disappears | Remembering A Lost Loved One


Love never disappears for death is a non-event.
I have merely retired to the room next door.
You and I are the same; what we were for each other, we still are.
Speak to me as you always have, do not use a different tone, do not be sad.
Continue to laugh at what made us laugh.
Smile and think of me.
Life means what it has always meant.
The link is not severed.
Why should I be out of your soul if I am out of your sight?
I will wait for you, I am not here, but just on the other side of this path.
You see, all is well.
–St. Augustine

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This entry was posted on Friday, September 14th, 2007 at 9:48 am and is filed under Grief / Loss, Poetry. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Love Never Disappears | Remembering A Lost Loved One”

  1. Pedro Solberg Says:
    April 17th, 2010 at 4:55 pm

    Where in St. Augustine’s writings is this letter ?

  2. admin Says:
    April 21st, 2010 at 5:41 pm

    Hello Pedro,

    Thank you for your question. Actually, we couldn’t find a reference to the original source material but it is commonly quoted for funerals and attributed to St. Augustine.

    Are there any VOL blog readers aware of the exact publication where this poem was pulled from?

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