The dead do not harm us, only the alive.
Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.
After a lifetime's independenceโ yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim โ I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals.
Try to capture what you can't bear to be without
Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.
I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.