What Will Happen When I'M Gone?
What will happen when I'm gone?
will the world remember me?
will the people notice
the absence? When the
professor calls roll, and
makes those tic-marks
of authority, my name
will not feel its painful
slice, will it be
noticed, will anyone care?
The room will be empty
empty as a bench
seated alone, the sound
of the waves come in
go out
the bench is
cold, the warmth of
familiar flesh no longer
the substance, the embrace
never felt, never again
the last true love was
the crafting, the furnishing
the shaping, molding into
a new creation. It was
art, originated from the
lone tree upon the grassy knoll.
Cut, severed, the umbilical
cord, the only real connection
we ever have, the only true
reality. So quickly does it
end, no mystery as to
why
we
scream
yell out, till the vocal cords
hammer together the blacksmith
smelting the iron against
sensitive flesh
the paper is gathered from
the dead oak-tree the one
upon the knoll, and then
glued and bound
made into a new creation
Ink, the blood of the intellect
smeared and forced into
form, making it all a
new form. These volumes
fill my many shelves
my constant addiction
what will happen to
them with I'm gone?
When I join the
literary dead, the paged
crypt. When I finally
descend from the madness
of life, and submerge
into the collective
dead circus of the
mysterious afterlife
the ultimate riddle and
connection of the unknown.
Will anyone notice? Does
anyone truly notice
them? When I no longer
live in this reality, will
those I know come inside
and read the books, read
my own works, read
this poem?
Or shall I be the lone
tree upon the knoll
the bench at the beach
never to be cut, never to be
warmed
Left in the Mother's Womb
to be aborted or decayed
perhaps I should have been
spared myself and the
world so much...
At the end of days
many questions will be asked
will anyone care?
What will happen when I'm gone?
Copyright © Colin Amato | Year Posted 2010
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