After Death
Now while my lips are living Their words must stay unsaid, And will my soul remember To speak when I am dead?
Yet if my soul remembered You would not heed it, dear, For now you must not listen, And then you could not hear.
Sara Teasdale
Now while my lips are living Their words must stay unsaid, And will my soul remember To speak when I am dead?
Yet if my soul remembered You would not heed it, dear, For now you must not listen, And then you could not hear.
Sara Teasdale’s speaker addresses someone she cares for while she is still alive. She says there are words her living lips must not speak, and she wonders whether her soul will remember to say them after she is dead.
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