Thursday, June 30
FROM all the rest I single out you, having a message for you:
You are to die - Let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate,
I am exact and merciless, but I love you - There is no escape for you.
Softly I lay my right hand upon you - you just feel it,
I do not argue - I bend m head close, and half envelope it.
I sit quietly by - I remain faithful,
I am more than nurse, more than parent or neighbor,
I absolve you from all except yourself, spiritua, bodily - that is eteral - you yourself will surely escape,
The corpse you leave will be but excrementitious.
The sun bursts through in unlooked-for drections!
Strong thoughts fill you, and confidence - you smile!
You forget you are sick, as I forget you are sick,
You do not see the medicines - you do not mind the weeping friends - I am with you,
I exclude others from you - there is nothing to be commiserated,
I do not commiserate - I congratulate you.