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When spring returns

by Huenemann

When spring returns

Perhaps I will no longer be in the world.
Today I wish I could think of Spring as a person
So that I could imagine her crying for me
When she sees that she’s lost her only friend.
But Spring isn’t even a thing:
It’s a manner of speaking.
Not even the flowers or green leaves return.
There are new flowers, new green leaves.
There are new balmy days.
Nothing returns, nothing repeats, because everything is real.

When spring arrives

by John Irons

When spring arrives,
And I by then should happen to be dead,
The flowers will blossom as before
And the trees be no less green than in spring of last year.

Reality has no need of me.

I sense a tremendous joy

At the thought that my death has no significance whatever.

If I knew I would die tomorrow

And that spring would be there the day after,

I would die content, since it was spring the following day.

If it was time for it, for when else would it come than when it was time?

I relish the fact that all is real and all as it must be;

And relish the fact it would also be so even if I did not relish it.

For all is real and all is as it must be.

Let prayers be said in Latin over my coffin, if so desired.

If so desired, let there be dancing and singing around it.

I have no preferences for when I no longer can have any preferences.

Whatever will be, when it shall be, will be what it is.

When Spring Comes

by Bongfury

When spring comes
If I’m dead,
The flowers flourish in the same manner
And the trees will not be less green than last spring.
Reality does not need me.

I feel a great joy
To think that my death is of no importance

If I knew I would die tomorrow
And the spring was the day after tomorrow
I would die happy because spring was the day after tomorrow.
If this is her time, when she had only come in time?
I like that everything is real and everything is right;
And because it would be like, even though I did not like.
So if i die now, I die happy,
Because everything is real and everything is right.

Pray in Latin over my coffin, if you will.
If you want , dance and sing around it.
I have no preferences for when we can not have preferences.
Whatever, whenever, that is what it is.