And now that you are dead, - If I should die <br />Upon this ground, <br />And open my new eye, <br />I’d leave my body dead, <br />Just like a garment shed <br />Without a sound; <br /> <br />And go to you within that dingy room <br />Above the stair, <br />To find you in the gloom, <br />As though you sadly dozed, <br />With dead eyes partly closed, <br />Within your chair. <br /> <br />Then would I find you sad, who used to weep <br />At death’s delay; <br />And I would notice creep <br />Upon your cheek a tear <br />At finding Heaven so near, <br />And Earth so far away.<br /><br />Leon Gellert<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-a-man-who-wished-to-die/
