There is
something very important I feel I must
relay,
it is what I don’t want to happen when
I have to go away.
Where am I going, back to
heaven you see
for I have finally completed
my long journey.
Oh, please don’t be
scared, don’t be afraid or cry,
that is not
what I want to happen the day I die.
“What do
I want to happen?”, well let me see,
“I know
let’s have a great big party!”
With some
wonderful music playing in the
background,
look on my jukebox where my
favorite ones can be found.
I want everyone’s
laughter to fill the air,
lots of colorful
balloons and maybe a teddy bear.
And how
about even some bubble gum to pass
out,
because this is what I was really all
about.
Everyone who is there should try to
laugh and to say,
how I touched their life in
even some small way.
“Did I try my best
to make sure we had fun,
was I completely
different from everyone?”
“Did I ever give
you a hug or make you smile,
did I make you
forget your troubles for just a little
while?”
“Did I make you laugh sometimes so
hard you thought you would die,
did I say
things to provoke your thought,
did I
sometimes make you cry?”
Well if I was
all of this to you and you really loved
me,
then you will know how important this is,
don’t you see.
If you were anyone who really
knew me,
then you will see to it I shall
always remain free.
Don’t put me in a
casket on public display,
I would never want
you to remember me this way.
I don’t want my
body buried in the ground,
no tombstone with
words about me to be found.
I want to be
cremated and return to dust,
as in the very
end you know we all must.
And where do I want
my ashes for you to scatter?
this is an
important part and it really does
matter.
Not on a mountain or at the sea,
the ocean is the place for me.
I’ll never
forget the calm I would feel when I was
there,
I could loose myself in the water and
be free from worry or care.
Just put me in a
pair of blue jeans and a floppy
sweatshirt,
please no bra, do you have any
idea how much those hurt.
Try your best
to always keep me in your heart,
because that
is where I have been from the very
start.
Please do this for me I know
best,
Please, God see to it that they grant
my last request.
© Brenda Sparkman
January 2004
Midi Playing: Ebb Tide
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