Saturday, June 28, 2025

When I Die...

 When I Die...

~ Anonymous


When I’m finally laid to rest,

Please don’t put me in a wooden casket;

Or leave flowers at my grave,

In a pretty little basket.


Don’t pump me full of chemicals

And put me on display;

Just bury me beneath the earth,

And plant a seed upon my grave.


And as my body rots below,

My atoms, reassimilated;

In my place a tree will grow,

From the place that I originated.


Precious minerals, returned to earth,

Little molecules of me—

The fuel for yet another life,

As I become the tree.

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