HOW TO BE SURE I DIED?

How to be sure I really died

and that the thought is not a wrong conclusion
drawn by doctors at first sight?

How to protest and present objections

to those who certify my death
and reject the grave prepared by them?

Is there a way to express my doubts

by contacting friends and family,
to tell them there’s still life in me

and be heard, though unable to shout,

to convey to them that it is wrong
to get me buried as dead and done?

(DPI 2012/2019)