My Epitaph

When my life has come and gone,

When through portals it has flown

Into God’s sweet paradise

and altered life’s sinful caprice

Into its immortal fate,

I pray my epitaph may state:

“Here lies the body of a soul

That lived a life worthwhile.”

Though centuries may roll

I pray they not defile

This lone commemoration,

The only revelation

Of my life’s destiny.

May my plaque of infinity

Bear no name

To mar a soul’s simplicity

And have no date

But as a star, shine immortally.