Legacies

With bowed heads and fervent prayer we shed our tears with broken hearts in memory of those no longer here, those memories are now set far apart. Names listed on the TV screen the familiar ones heard from another century, Benedict and Barbara Walters, other famous names upon the altar, Unfamiliar names are forgotten yet last pushed back into our past the heroes, saints, and sinners once cast; these then there are the names often unheard, familiar but unknown to the public lives interred by family, friends, and the dearly beloved who revealed the truths in life discovered by the children and pictures that remain and we take stock of all we've lost and all we've gained, holding on tight to their legacies and their names.