What Prospero said should not be decried
 Give death a rightful standing in our lives
 As a lens through which to view the good for which we strive
 To ponder temporal versus eternal that is always nigh
 To elevate appreciation and despondency defy 

 
 And so, when vibrant youth immortality implies
 When healthy vigour makes the future glisten in our eyes
 When happiness is at its peak with all that it supplies
 When prosperity creates opportunity many are denied
 When security is such that all our fears it belies
 Take a moment to remember it is only life that dies 

 
 Value life through death as on times fleeting wings it flies
 The mind that honours death values life on high