I Shall Live Beyond Death

[Luna Arjuna]

"I shall live beyond death,
and I shall sing in your ears

Even after the vast sea-wave
carries me back

To the vast sea-depth.

I shall sit at your board though
without a body,

And I shall go with you to your
fields, a spirit invisible.

I shall come to you at your
fireside, a guest unseen.

Death changes nothing but
the masks that cover our faces.

The woodsman shall be still a
woodsman,

The ploughman, a ploughman,

And he who sang his song to the
wind shall sing it also to

the moving spheres."

Kahlil Gibran, I Shall Live Beyond Death, from The Garden of The Prophet