Who Will Mourn?

Pretend you are dead and you will see who really loves you

I wonder who will mourn when I die

Will all those I know or who know me cry?

My friends sorrowfully, my enemies gleefully?

Will sympathizing strangers join my family?

 

Could I exit for just a while or perhaps a day

I could then resurrect so that to see I may

In my life who is part of the false crew

If in my life there are those truly true

 

Who and who will break down and languish

Why and how they’ll bewail should I perish

The words they would say, the weeping

What they would do in case of my sleeping

 

I do not want a pining or forever exiting

An advance knowing would be interesting.

Author's Note

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