I don't go to Funerals

I don't go to Funerals

Please don't come to mine and I won't go to yours

You see

I don't go to Funerals

to stand around like lemons

 in heavy dark suits and old fashioned hats,

to sing a few tinny hymns before being

ushered out of the Crematorium because of the clock
 to sit and eat stale bread.

I don't go to Funerals

because I think that it is so unfair to have to die

without knowing what it was like to live.

No matter what age

you take your regret to the grave.

There's Ron 'claddu pawb' who like a vampire

 renews and reforms after another's demise.

I am so surrounded by death that when it actually happens

it is a shock that life goes on unchecked.

We continue to eat, shit and make small talk

there's shopping to be done.

I don't go to Funerals because life is like a living death

but if your soul, hovering above the coffin, sees me there,
and tries to reach out for one last goodbye,

it's not me

because 

I don't go to Funerals.

*claddu pawb:buries all