I did not die

Do not stand there, do not weep;
Even if I’m dead, I will not sleep.
I came to love and died in peace.
I was born to live and not to grieve.
I live not in the coffin, nor in the seas.
They might have burned me but I have fields to reap.
I shall live in your thoughts and rest in your souls,
and never really vanish until I have my goals.
If they burned me today, I’ll move in the airs,
and the day I must work, I’ll come down as flares.
So do not stand there, do not cry.
I am not there, I did not die.

– Saransh Gupta (Words of Wonder)

Painting : Konstantin Youn, First Appearance of Lenin at a meeting in Smolny, the Petrograd Soviet on Oct.25, 1917,