After I Pass Away Poem by Kishore Asthana

Make no tombstones for me
For I will live on in you,
Just gone to change my body now
Will soon be back - good as new

Let there be no rituals
All these are past their 'use-by' date
There's no way they affected my life
There's no way they'll affect my fate

Dates of birth and death are pointless
The dash between them was great
It was a colourful, curlicued pattern
The line definitely was not straight

Some you shared, the rest I lived
Boisterously, just in my mind
Both dances were a lot of fun
And fate, too, was very kind

That's how I'd like to be remembered
With joy and laughter, food and wine
While I revel in blessed freedom
In my other world divine

Drown my joy in no tears
No sombre faces I want to see
Do not feel sad for yourself
And never, ever, feel sad for me