When I Die

When I die
I'm not going to tell anyone,
because I know the telling
will already have begun.

For it never fails, it seems,
when I'm ready to announce the news
of some great event in my life,
everyone says... they already knew!

So don't look for confirmation
from my dying lips to your ears;
just remember the melancholy details
will be floating about in the atmosphere!

Lora Frikken ~ 5-11-15