{"sf1_id":879212,"sf2_id":"yndwDvPm","title":"Mortality (a sonnet)","author":"Dipper","words":97,"posted_at":"2015-06-27T02:52:00.000Z","tags":["Poetry","hopelessness","sonnet"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/879212-mortality-a-sonnet","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/yndwDvPm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/80/a7/80a798d9-e833-4d4f-abe5-edc0b9f50964","description":"#36 of Scraps\n\nFeeling particularly hopeless today.\nForgive me.","content":"A person lives as long as time itself\n\nProvided his effect is there to see\n\nBut lacking progeny he must rely\n\nOn others' often spotty memory\n\nIdeas are immortal, living on\n\nTo give another generation pause\n\nBut often they fade out in ages hence\n\nAnd leave no trace to show it ever was\n\nWhen gone am I, I leave nothing behind\n\nNot statement writ nor even legs of stone\n\nWhile futile Ozymandias still lives\n\nNo one will ever know me when I'm gone\n\nToday I am a candle burning low\n\nTomorrow, out, with nothing else to show\n\n  \n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Scraps","previous":"https://sofurry.com/s/rn9JGN41","next":"https://sofurry.com/s/yndRPk2e"}}