In The End
#28 of National Poetry Writing Month
This song is about death and what happens afterwards. Sort of. I was listening to some music and thinking about what to write for today's poem when the song In The End by Black Veil Brides came on. That was all the inspiration I needed! Besides I needed something to write a poem about and this came out very easily in just a few short minutes.
We are who we choose
to be. At least that's
what we believe while
we are alive.
But after we are dead
and gone how will
we be remembered?
When others tell the
story of our lives will we
be the hero we imagined
ourselves to be?
Or the enemy we never
wanted to admit we
were?
Who will remember
our last smile?
Our last goodbye?
Our last words?
Our last embrace?
As we fade away from
existence who will it
be that remembers us?
Will all traces of us
fade away forever?
Or will we live on
in the memory of
those we love or
in someone or
something greater
than ourselves?
In the end when our
lives are no longer
in our control who
will be left to tell
our story? If anyone
is left to remember
us at all?