Poetry - Don't Cry for Me

Don't stand around a coffin And cry sad unending tears for me. Send me off with a joyful laugh And watch me float away In a cool spring morning breeze. Don't bury me beneath the earth Where the cold darkness will eat away at my body until I am just a bag of bones. Toss me into the wind So that I can fly with the birds And float with the clouds toward home. Spread my ashes across a golden valley of…