I Want You To Live On Poem by Gert Strydom

I want you to forget me not
when I am gone
and when this life
leaves me and death
takes me away,
I want you to live on
like you did yesterday.

If you fill your heart
with sadness and cry every day
there will be no place
for gladness
and all that will be left of me,
will be pain and tragedy.

If you live life to its fullest
and love again
and find pleasure
in every thing,
I will be a sweet memory
and you will set my spirit free.