My Legacy
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200 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH
An epitaph is a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument written to praise the deceased. It may be unrhymed. William Shakespeare, John Keats, and many other eminent poets had penned their own epitaphs. Keats travelled to Rome and died there, aged just 25, in February, 1821. He told his friend Joseph Severn that he didn't want his name to appear on his tombstone, but merely this line: ‘Here lies one whose name was writ in water’.
you cannot calculate my legacy in monetary value
or in market shares
neither in some property
nor anything tangible
I leave you my soul
recorded in poetry
and thoughts
I share
with those of you with an ear for the essence of me
but unlike Keats not have my name written in water
Copyright © Suzette Richards | Year Posted 2021
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