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A legacy forgotten

Consider my grave your resting place too,
An empathetic soul who rests here.
Worry not poet, it haunts no more,
Covered with maggots, I've rotted here for a while.
These sockets are now emptied, I see nothing to judge.

With my brains swallowed,
I am no critique.
Only bones adorning dirt and bugs.
Justitia, you can call me.
Lend me your ears and I'll spit the truth.

They cherished me when lived, 
Now left in a churchyard to rot and suffocate.
Did I not serve them well? 
Recall the fights I fought, for our pride poet.
Yet, lie here, with mates, died in my lap.

Never craved for this grave,
But a life, unafraid.
Early, wasn't it? 
My beard never turned grey, in fact.
Celebrate my story, in a poem in your next birth.

Copyright © Tapan Nath

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