Poem - "O Living Always—Always Dying." by Walt Whitman

"O Living Always—Always Dying." 
by Walt Whitman


O LIVING always—always dying!

O the burials of me, past and present!
O me, while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever!
O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not—I am content;)
O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look at, where I cast
them!
To pass on, (O living! always living!) and leave the corpses behind!