In a Place of Solace - Silverstein

A casket opened up

A family can't reach in

I may not have been

What you wanted me to have been for your first born

Do they mourn my life or celebrate my death

Do they celebrate my death

This casket close it up

This casket close it up

No one speaks no one says a word no one here stands

This is honesty through passivity looking away

This is ignorance through abstinence you stay away

It ends with ashes to destroy the evidence and block the memory

Close it up break it out and remain in a place of solace