If anyone would like to translate the whole poem, I would love to have that, too. Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep - Headstone Designs Headstones, Cemetery, Monument. It makes more sense if the meaning is not construed as imperative, so I think I'll go with one of the below for the first sentence.īut what is the difference between the two? And how about gender and number of persons being addressed? Remember, this is going on my grave and is meant to imply to any and all reading it that, "I am not buried here." The grave is next to my late wife, but since I've remarried and have chosen to be cremated, the rest of the poem describes more accurately where I will be. No headstone is to be placed on my grave and my name engraved nowhere.