You don't have to remember me
Or mourn my departure from this world
In fact, don't even think back fondly to moments shared
Just let the memories come naturally as those with the living
Because I too, can just as easily come

Don't pick up a photograph and let go of a tear
This ritual brings about nothing but ghosts to feed on sorrows
I appreciate the sentiment, but really there's no need
Because I'm here still and quite fully alive- maybe more so than you
And that's not how it should be

Although your cries show that love is still within
I get quite insulted from time to time
Because I stand before you, and sometimes call out your name
But you ignore me and denounce me non existent
I have no eyes, yet it is you who is blinded

Why don't you come anymore?
Because I've been waiting for so long
We used to play by the stream and climb the trees
Our joy nurturing roots of others who are mourned
Don't you want to visit the crop we together tended

You remember how to get here
Yet you never make the journey
This place is more beautiful than I remember
And I've saved my branches just for you
I'm still here, still waiting, to lift you from where you stand