Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep read by Bill Charlton

"Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep" was left in an envelope for his parents, to be opened in the event of his death, by a soldier, Stephen Cummins, who was killed on active service in Nothern Ireland at the age of 24, (a mine blew up his armoured car near Londonderry) The poem was read , on BBC TV on Remembrance Day in 1995, by Stephen Cummins' father. Many assumed at first that the soldier had written it, but later this proved to be false.
The poems origin still remains a mystery but, there are several people that claim authorship including Mary Frye, Gwydion Penderwen, Joyce Fossen, Albert Spengler
This poem is referred to in the press as "the most requested poem in the English language in the past 60 years" and "the poem that took the nation by storm." It has been read at memorials repeatedly over the years, including that of the five astronauts who died in the Challenger space shuttle disaster.

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Do not stand at my grave and weep.

I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow.

I am the diamond glints on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain.

I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the mornings hush,

I am the swift uplifting rush

of quiet birds in circled flight,

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry,

I am not there, I did not die.

Author unknown
Commonly attributed to several authors