No Bowed Heads
No bowed heads, you’re the only one at your funeral.
Wayne Ray
SourceLicence:Public domain
No bowed heads, you’re the only one at your funeral.
Wayne Ray’s three-line poem speaks directly to you, as if giving a quiet command. It imagines the strangest of scenarios: at your own funeral, no one else is there. No bowed heads means no mourners, no one paying respects, no crowd to validate your life or grief. Yet the tone is not purely sad.
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