On my gravestone please inscribe:

Here lies

Uta Susanna Burke, geb. Kramer

Aged 100 years

Hath done what she wanted to do

From a gravestone in an old English churchyard

Adapted to my life

Do not stand at my grave and weep,

I am not here, I do not sleep.

I am the journals from my youth

I am my poems full of truth

I am the stories in my books

I am my slowly fading looks

I’m in my lovely daughter’s sigh

I am the soul in my pets’ eye

I have loved and lived and tried it all

I can rest now in my fall

Do not stand at my grave and cry

I am not there, I did not die.