Jim Tidd Poet Rhyme

Rejoinder To Kpm and Cgr

It only takes a few years gone
for everyone to forget that song;
though often later generations
will not keep their venerations
of cherished family now long past,
faint memories die off real fast!
Faces lost, even distant laugh,
if not captured in photograph;
portraits peel and fade away
unless in museum they do stay,
and even when on wall they bask,
most future viewers often ask
“Who is that person? Who were they?
Were they important in their day?”
Statuary might be concrete,
memoirs can be indiscreet,
tombstones often wear away,
nothing on Earth can long stay;
we return to dust, one in the same
while only few win lasting fame.

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Kp Nunez November 4, 2015 at 9:40 AM Not surprised to know that Christina Georgina Rossetti's poem inspired this write, but to know that mine did as well humbles me. You've taken it further in that you've given a deeper thought to how the coming generation will wonder about our lives when we are gone. A sobering thought. Loved this, Jim. A fav. Jim Tidd November 4, 2015 at 12:30 PM You never know what will get the wheels in the brain in motion. I was musing not long ago that most people, after three generations, will be forgotten, as there is likely no one left that actually knew them. When my siblings and I die, there will be no one in the family who knew my grandparents, for instance. It is a sad thought. I just hope departed souls get to gather somewhere.