When my coffin is being taken out
you must never think I am missing this world
Don't shed any tears, don't lament or feel sorry
I'm not falling into a monster's abyss
When you see my corpse is being carried don't cry for my leaving
I'm not leaving, I’m arriving at eternal love
When you leave me in the grave don't say goodbye
remember a grave is only a curtain for the paradise behind
You'll only see me descending into a grave
now watch me rise
how can there be an end when the sun sets or the moon goes down
It looks like the end, it seems like a sunset but in reality it is a dawn
when the grave locks you up, that is when your soul is freed
Have you ever seen a seed fallen to earth not rise with a new life
why should you doubt the rise of a seed named human
Have you ever seen a bucket lowered into a well coming back empty
why lament for a soul when it can come back, like Joseph from the well
When for the last time you close your mouth
your words and soul will belong to the world of no place no time
-Rumi-