FORGOTTEN

I won’t forget you  

I swear  

The first thing they say when we leave this earth  

As we feel the stomps of their footsteps  

Leave the side of our grave 

Echoes of cries that soon fade away  

Laying alone in darkness  

A void 

Nothingness 

Waiting to be judged  

The memories 

The times  

The joy  

Start to flash before our eyes as we try to control them  

They sleep and remember our passing  

But soon smile along the line  

For their lives are still to be lived  

Being in the grave is being forgotten  

Being dead is being history  

To just feel like a past memory  

Death takes our existence socially  

Death degrades us  

And makes us nobody  

Thy begin to go back on their word  

Forgetting us  

Our passing  

Our existence  

Our memories  

As we still lay there  

Dark, empty, void  

Death makes us history  

Death makes us forgotten
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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