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What if I die

May 8, 2022
By feiershen GOLD, Shanghai, Other
feiershen GOLD, Shanghai, Other
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Favorite Quote:
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore. ---- Georgia O'Keeffe


What if I die
Seventy-five


As you shovel dirt on me
Your words don’t come down with me


What if I look up
And you are not there
Did you do everything trying to win me back


If I had a gravestone
Would you leave dandelions
For all the things that you couldn’t give


If I die
Do spray my ashes
On the roads to my past
For all the things that you couldn’t fix


My love my love
You have the rest of your life to be dead


The author's comments:

This poem is about losing and loving. I wrote this very spontaneously one day when I was taking an evening walk in my boarding school.

When faced with the splendid of youth, I constantly think about when all of this disappear and I am left with grief. If I am to die, I want my love to remember me, to give things they couldn't give. I may be buried under places that we used to go to, under the bleachers, behind the buildings ... 


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