NaPoWriMo 2024 day 12

Day 12 of NaPoWriMo.

My poem

A couplet poem.

Tired at the lobby

I try to keep myself awake
My eyeliids want to rest
The background music's playing low —
A soft whisper at best

Featured poem

A classic.

Song

by Christina Rossetti

When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.

I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.