We have perfect foreknowledge
of nothing, and of the most crucial everything:
Death is coming.
And so, it is unparalleled praise
that you regard the delight of our love
as greater than the agony of its necessary passing.
The gall of departure will swallow the sweetness of embrace,
but your open arms beckon all the more.
It is the purest affirmation of my humanity
that you unhesitatingly chose to mourn me,
when such mourning was foreseen.
So too will I mourn you 
and countless others.