When I Take my Last Breath

• Artist: onionio
• Description: A somewhat literal poem expressing my desire to not be dressed up when I die.
• Date: 04/12/2009
• Tags: take last breath

When I take my last breath
When I finally go
Please don’t play dress up with me
At my funeral

Please throw out the make-up
The lipstick and the paint
Leave my skin a porcelain white
My flesh you will not taint

Don’t decorate me in satin
Or a frilly dress of lace
Give me something comfortable
To wear to my resting place

Please don’t corrupt my body
Or the image I’ve designed
Leave me remembered as who I am
In the life from which I resigned

Comments

[ugly_Duckling_17]

good job! when you are then you are dead, whats the point of dressing up a body when its just gonna rot anyway?

[Current_User]

awww this is good. Yeah people should be remembered how they lived.

[Nylon Steelsen]

Yea i get what ur saying. Most ppl (including me!) dont want to "look great" when im dead!