I read a poem a few years ago that Had a line " Don't cry for me I'm
only in the next room "  or something like that.  It's refering to
death and the person who died is saying even thought you can't see 
him or hear him you can talk to him because he's only in the next
room.  Do you know anything about this piece.

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 06 Aug 2004 15:41 PDT

Hi mema,

Do these lines seem familiar?

"Death is nothing at all. It does not count.
I have only slipped away into the next room 
Nothing has happened. 
(...)
Call me by the old familiar name.
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used to.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes that we enjoyed together." 


Regards,
Rainbow

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Clarification of Question by mema802-ga on 06 Aug 2004 17:27 PDT

Sounds close, but not exact...maybe the poem I read had been modified
from the original.  The one I read was in the Burlington Vermont Free
Press many years ago.
But thank you for trying.  Is this the entire Poem?  If not could you
put the entire piece on this  site so I could read it.

Again thank you.

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 06 Aug 2004 17:39 PDT

Hi mema,

You can read this very moving poem at the following site:

http://www.wowzone.com/death.htm

Best of luck,
Rainbow

You'll find many poems about death here. Perhaps the one you're
looking for is among them:

http://www.poemsforfree.com/deathpo.html

Thank you all very much...great Job