# In The End

Author: ShingetsuMoon
Tags: Death, Poem, Poetry

#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?

Source: https://sofurry.com/s/V1YKajvm
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