DM Babbit Poet Quatrain

What Would You Say

Tell me true this day,
  what would you say if I went away?
Would you notice if I'm gone
  would it take my name to fade very long?

Other names, faces too
  have slipped away unseen by me or you.
Their epitaphs no more appear in news print
  all that passes as well, had their stint.

The media holds little memory
  of who we were in history.
The internet, face book, you tube sites
  have not memorialized our life's plights.

Even twitter feeds 
 temporarily fill presidential needs.
Yet, if I go away in these final days
 who other than family prays?

So what's left of who we were -
 pictures, words, images to decipher;
only for those few who might recall
 we were here, trying to give our all.

In the light of these final days
 tell me, now, what would you say?

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