Tara

46 Death

1	A young girl witnessed her mother endure great sickness.
2	Yet she was deprived of witnessing her body after death.
3	Instead, the father said to her: Your mother has gone away to another place.
4	Whereupon the young girl was greatly saddened and melancholy henceforth.
5	Until one day, her father gravely ill from injury of battle summonsed her and spoke thus:
6	It grieves me most not only that you become an orphan, but that you did not see your mother.
7	For she did not abandon you but died. And surely if you had seen her body you would know.
8	Soon after the father also died and the little girl was at first denied the chance to see his body.
9	But upon insistence she did witness the corpse and said thus: Now I see, Oh Father! I thank thee!
10	For before me is but an empty vessel. And what I love has truly gone on a new journey.
11	Thus I know you are always with me, as nothing that is created can be uncreated and nothing immortal can ever die.