Instructions To My Son

The day will come
Not for an expensive box
Dropped into a hole in the ground
Covered up with dirt

My choice is cremation
Fire and flame
Down to clean ash
Sharp bits of bone

In Colorado or Oregon
Climb a convenient mountain
To a seaward rushing stream
Put me in its mountain music
And let me go

To join with everything

Everywhere

from: The Red Buddha by Maia Penfold