DON'T

Don’t talk of death here.

Don’t compare me to the

whites of tomb or loss.

Don’t leave me in the hands

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of someone weeping.

Don’t drop me at the feet

of a life lived.

Don’t tell me you look at me

and only see an end.

I am still growing, thriving,

following the gentle curve

of the sun.