When I'M Killed Poem by Robert Graves

When I'M Killed

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When I’m killed, don’t think of me
Buried there in Cambrin Wood,
Nor as in Zion think of me
With the Intolerable Good.
And there’s one thing that I know well,
I’m damned if I’ll be damned to Hell!

So when I’m killed, don’t wait for me,
Walking the dim corridor;
In Heaven or Hell, don’t wait for me,
Or you must wait for evermore.
You’ll find me buried, living-dead
In these verses that you’ve read.

So when I’m killed, don’t mourn for me,
Shot, poor lad, so bold and young,
Killed and gone — don’t mourn for me.
On your lips my life is hung:
O friends and lovers, you can save
Your playfellow from the grave.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
rodney s 05 June 2022

beautiful

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Michael Walker 01 September 2019

Startling thoughts about his death, and what happens afterwards.

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Bobby 25 January 2018

Does it have a moral?

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