It's high school graduation time again.  Nick left this earth 2 days before his high school graduation due to an automobile accident.  His life was over; our family & friends left to mourn his loss. His friends gave him a standing ovation at the graduation.  That gesture was a wonderful tribute to his life at a school where he was active and well loved. In the end, we are left with his memory. As his mother, I feel him around me at times. Or is it my imaginative wish? Perhaps not.  As Scott Holland wrote at the turn of the century as an professor at Oxford:

...Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?

I am but waiting for you.
For an interval.
Somewhere. Very near.
Just around the corner.