When I breathe my last breath
I'll be floating in a hot spring with
no one's thoughts but my own
It will be dark and cloudless
and I'll see all the stars
and I'll see the constellations
but I won't know their names
when I breathe my last breath
When I breathe my last breath
the world will heal
The vines will flourish
and the roses will bloom
And my mother will laugh
and the bumblebees buzz
for when I breathe my last breath
the world will be as it once was
When I breathe my last breath
the space I once occupied
will be freed from my wrath
The Earth will feel so still
Will life go on without me?
Of this, I can't be certain
When I breathe my last breath
the world will refresh
the sun will rise
the children will stand at the bus stop
waiting single file
When I breathe my last breath
the world will be as it was
before me
Every footprint I made,
washed away by the high tide
and when I breathe my last breath
I'll sink into the cosmos
I'll be all around you
and life will go on
when I breathe my last breath
(And inhale
I'll breathe)
