Because that you are going And never coming back And I, however absolute, May overlook your Track - Because that Death is final, However first it be… - Emily Dickinson

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Because that you are going And never coming back And I, however absolute, May overlook your Track -

Because that Death is final, However first it be,

This instant be suspended Above Mortality -

Significance that each has lived The other to detect Discovery not God himself Could now annihilate

Eternity, Presumption The instant I perceive That you, who were Existence Yourself forgot to live -

The “Life that is” will then have been A thing I never knewAs Paradise fictitious Until the Realm of you-

The “Life that is to be,” to me,

A Residence too plain Unless in my Redeemer’s Face I recognize your own -

Of Immortality who doubts He may exchange with me Curtailed by your obscuring Face Of everything but He -

Of Heaven and Hell I also yield The Right to reprehend To whoso would commute this Face For his less priceless Friend.