Not gone, just marching far away. Not marching, but charging. Joyously, viciously, victoriously charging forward, a fearsome furor of future fates laid low by benevolent beloveds. Weep for grief, sob for joy, saltwater blending sweet sorrow and painful prescience for what certainty is there but rot? We all rot one day, dirt and dust briefly brought breath under the shining sun, only to slowly sink into the soil again. Weep, oh child of life, for fleeting fancy is all you are and yet not all you could ever be, for is it not immortality even if all that's left of you is me? Sing now thy lilting litany, music melancholy of gasping ghosts, breathing new life with each refrain. Gone you may be, but here you remain, with me, stories and songs echoing eternally, and that's as near as anyone there or here can hope for when to our long sleep we go, my dear.