Castle Shima

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
-- Ernest Hemingway

::: Tower View :::
Euology
To the Spike clan, our condolescences and prayers to you.

Too One Shortly to Die by Walt Whitman
    1
FROM all the rest I single out you, having a message for you:
You are to die - Let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate,
I am exact and merciless, but I love you - There is no escape for you.

Softly I lay my right hand upon you - you just feel it,
I do not argue - I bend my head close, and half envelope it,
I sit quietly by - I remain faithful,
I am more than nurse, more than parent or neighbor,
I absolve you from all except yourself, spiritual, bodily - that is
    Eternal - you yourself will surely escape,
The corpse you will leave will be but excrementitious.

    2
The sun bursts through in unlooked-for directions!
Strong thoughts fill you, and confidence - you smile!
You forget you are sick, as I forget you are sick,
You do not see the medicines - you do not mind the weeping friends - I
    am with you,
I exclude others from you - there is nothing to be commiserated,
I do not commiserate - I congratulate you.
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Can you see
My eyes are shining bright
Cause I'm out here on the other side
Of a jet black hotel mirror
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