We'll meet again

They say you will not come again,
but I shall always hear
your voice in silence and in song,
and feel you ever near.

They say you have passed beyond,
unto the joy supreme,
but I can always call you back
into the land of dream.

For death is but a gateway
to the great reality,
a new beginning,not an end
of human destiny.

For love is all,and life goes on
in spite of grief and pain,
and deep within my heart I know
that we shall meet again.

These lines were written on a piece of paper picked up on a battlefield during the Normandy invasion in World War II