Scatter Not The Dead (a poem .. also in the Forum) posted 2/25/2007 3:22:44 AM | 0 kudos what's this?     report abuse tagged: flowers, dead, death, life, love

HopelesslyHopeful

Thou needst not scatter the flowers, dead, in rememberance of me
No, nor put them upon my bier: dead things in rememberance of death
Rather let the sun shine, rays flowing down, to touch upon new hope
Plant them in your garden, dear: live things in rememberance of life

For the spirit hath fled my mortality and bears no need of sacrifice
Yet once I too hadst life to dance in fields,as the flowers sway so
So love, scatter not death, nor bind it in bunches, to augment sadness
But tend the garden, what room permits,remembering me as I loved you

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