Give me flowers while I’m alive, <br />I can’t appreciate them when I’m dead. <br />Let me enjoy each coloured bloom <br />and smell its appealing scent. <br />For when I’m dead I won’t be here <br /> to see or smell anything at all, <br />so give me flowers while I’m alive <br />and I can appreciate them then. <br />For when I’m dead, I’m dead <br /> and all the beauty here will be gone, <br />so if you want to give me flowers <br />give them to me while I’m alive <br />for I’ll never appreciate them <br />when I’m dead and gone. <br /> <br />11 February 2008<br /><br />David Harris<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-i-m-dead-and-gone-5/
