When I Die

When I Die

When my coffin is being taken out, you must never think I am missing this world. 

Don't shed any tears, don't lament or feel sorry, I'm not falling into a monsters abyss (hell; the bottomless pit).

When you see my corpse is being carried, don't cry for my leaving, I'm not leaving, I'm arriving at eternal love.

When you leave me in the grave, don't say goodbye, remember a grave is only a curtain for the paradise behind.

You'll only see me descending into a grave, now watch me rise, how can there be an end, when the sun sets or the moon goes down.

It looks like the end, it seems like a sunset but in reality it is a dawn. When the grave locks you up, that is when your soul is freed.

Have you ever seen a seed fallen to Earth, not rise with a new life? Why should you doubt the rise of a seed named Human?

Have you ever seen a bucket lowered into a well come back empty? Why lament for a soul when it came back, like Joseph, from the well.

When for the last time you close your mouth, your words and soul will belong to the world of no place no time.

~ Rumi

Death Poems

Do Not Stand at My Grave & Weep

Do not stand at my grave and weep

I am not there, I do not sleep

I am a thousand winds that blow

I am the diamond glints on snow

I am the sunlight on ripened grain

I am the gentle autumn rain

When you awaken in the morning's hush

I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circled flight

I am the soft stars that shine at night

Do not stand at my grave and cry

I am not there ... I did not die

~ Mary Elizabeth Frye