In the waiting and holding out in this bleak world, we find that we have hope and that we are not alone.

In the waiting and holding out in this bleak world, we find that we have hope and that we are not alone.
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.
"One short sleep past, we wake eternally And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die." #JohnDonne #HolySonnetX
"Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality." #EmilyDickinson #poetry
For once death is dead, swallowed up in Christ's victory, "there's no more dying then."