The truest words of all:
I will not forget you.
You are in my waking thoughts,
my sweetest memories,
my dearest dreams.
I will not forget you.
You have touched my soul,
opened my eyes,
changed my very experience
of the universe. 
I will not forget you.
I see you in the flowers,
the sunset,
the sweep of the horizon
and all things
that stretch to infinity. 
I will not forget you.
I have carved you
on the palm of my hand.
 I carry you with me forever.

— Ellen Sue Stern, Living with Loss, 1995