I wonder what it means to be forgotten
I want to say,
“After all, isn’t everyone forgotten eventually?”
& then I remember all the writers,
long gone, whose names are spoken
& whose texts are printed for study
& I remember my mother’s pink granite stone
& how my grandmother cleans stones older than hers
to make the names legible
so they’ll be remembered
Do I want to be remembered?
I guess, even if I’m buried under an unmarked tree,
that decision isn’t up to me
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Last stanza says it all!
I love how this really makes you think! It shows that you don’t have control over what happens after you pass, I love it!