"When the Spring Comes"

[Spinoza]

Alberto Caeiro

When springs comes,
If I've already died,
The flowers will bloom in the same way
And the trees won't be less green than they were last Spring.
Reality doesn't need me.

I feel incredibly happy
When I think my death has absolutely no importance.

If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow.
If that's its time, when else should it come?
I like it that everything is real and everything is right;
And I like that it would be like this even if I didn't like it.
And so, if I die now, I die peacefully
Because everything is real and everything is right.

They can pray in Latin over my coffin if they want to.
It's alright with me if they dance and sing all around it.
I don't have any preferences about when I won't even be able to have preferences.
What comes, when it comes, will be what it is."

 

[Epsilon0]

W. H. AUDEN

Funeral Blues

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone.
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

(...)

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun.
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

 

[TheSoulless]

This is beautiful, thanks for sharing.