Author Rainer Maria Rilke Do not come back. Be, if you can bear it, dead with the dead. The dead are busy. Yet, so far as this does not distract you, help me, as the most distant often helps me: in me. Tags Short Poems Rate this poem Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 No votes yet Rate Log in or register to post comments