Guest graveyard poem: 'When dying is beautiful', by Little Miss Funeral

Graveyard poetry is seldom practiced thing these days.
Little Miss Funeral has written an honest, poignant graveyard poem entitled "When Dying is Beautiful".
It deserves to be read more.

"When Dying is Beautiful" is a graveyard poem that flies.
It can be read here:
https://littlemissfuneral.com/2017/03/17/when-dying-is-beautiful/

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Imagine an evening of readings by Graveyard poets in the back room of an old Edinburgh bar. Standing in front of the small, shuffling, audience under fairy lights, lens flaring through the nectar pints of I.P.A.

I would love to read Greville and the Tombstones stuff on the same bill as Little Miss Funeral.

There is super authenticity in her writing and landscape. Little Miss Funeral is a funeral director in New York. Plus, I mean, Little Miss Funeral is an awesome poet name. Think of the promotional posters for that reading gig!

We would make a good evening mix of graveyard poetry, nihilism and death positivity.

Anyway, enough day dreaming of sell-out gigs and crowd-surfing. I sincerely hope to read more of her poetic writing whenever Little Miss Funeral would like to write it.



I know you'll enjoy it just as much as I. Here is: When Dying is Beautiful

by

littlemissfuneral

When I think of dying I become afraid.

Not of death itself,

but of the act of dying.

I don’t want it to hurt.

I don’t want it to last long.

I want to slip from this life into the next.

And when I think of dying in that way,

as in being born again,

I’m not afraid.

I think of how I’ll feel when I’m with my grandpa again.

And if I think that the ocean is beautiful now,

think of how spectacular it will be in paradise.

When people I love die, I hurt.

I don’t understand it.

But I’m not meant to understand everything.

I’m meant to do my best.

I’m meant to trust in God.

What we have here is only temporary.

But one day when I close my eyes,

I will open them to a permanent love.

A love that fully embraces me.

And when I think of dying in this way

I think death is very beautiful.

You can read more by Little Miss Funeral via her blog.