Why write a funeral poem for your legacy?

Let the words of this funeral poem evoke your imagination to compose your own one.

Let the eulogy of your poem become a commencement address to inspire the lifelong learning needed to transform our mindsets for co-designing a flourishing future for the benefit of all.

Break the death taboo

Love death to death with all your heart

Death makes life so much more worthwhile living

Love life everyday?

Practice gratitude

Be graceful

Enjoy, laugh, celebrate

Cherish every moment

Intimacy, awe, beauty,?

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Discover now without life or death

In the in-between?

Find your inner peace, enlightenment

Illuminating moments of clarity

The void, the eternal inner stillness

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Write a poem for your funeral well before your death

With unforgettable words of aspirations

Elucidate your guiding virtues for life

Share your bliss on earth

Give timeless gifts of meaning about community

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Speak to what needs to be said

Ask for forgiveness and forgive

Come to terms with regrets

Secrets known and unknown

Heal misdeeds?

Touch hearts, minds and souls

To live in hearts is never to die?

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Let suffocating sorrow go

Anchored, attached to the past

Rise up from the valley of death and destruction

Despair melts away like ice in the sun

Grieve, grow, glow

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The heroes journey, the solo sage syndrome

Individualist paradigms, incomplete, insufficient

Reductionism, our original sin

Disconnected, fragmented, impaired

Ancient mythologies mollified

Awaken new narratives, living story movements

Inspire a new age of higher consciousness

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Our leadership and educational paradigms incompetent

Incapable of solving our complex web of wicked problems

From the ashes of disconnections

Holism, interdependence, equanimity rise up

Reconnect the whole

Without divisions and dysfunctional polarizations

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Build back better is not good enough

Begin anew, detox fake news

Deconstruct the sociopathic lovefest

Inspire virtues, purpose and meaning

Build anew to co-create a flourishing future

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Hike to the pinnacle

Embrace the vast horizon

Become an open-minded, free-thinker with bold humility

Be the holy fool to challenge sacred cows

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Embrace the hues of the sunset

Co-create a legacy for a new dawn

Lead with Love, truth-seeking and the pursuit of equity

Leave space for a better place

More equitable, regenerative, sustainable than before

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Consider using this poem for discussions over dinner .

If this poem inspires you, leave a comment and share your words of wisdom with others to inspire them to consider writing their poem.

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