If Rising From Your Grave
 
If rising from your grave you water
the flowers on your tombstone
before returning to the earth again
tomorrow everyone will accuse you of dying.
Better to remain dead.

Are you afraid of death? Death means
life without the “I'm afraid of death.”

If rising from your grave you recite
a prayer by your tombstone
everyone will say you're dead.
Better to remain dead.

Translation by Peyman Vahabzadeh and Roger Humes.