Forgotten

by shadow1950taunton, Somerset, England, UK

Mar 2013 515 Views 6 comments

Forgotten

Author: shadow1950

No name appears on my stone
there are no flowers strewn
grasses grows knee high
full of thorny brambles
how did this come to pass
that so soon I am forgotten
no longer in memories am I
yet but a few short years
have passed since my death
my name once on many lips
now only sighed by the wind
as it passes my resting place
now, forsaken, forgotten
out of sight and out of mind
nothing now remains of me
just my crumbling bones
moulder away deep in the earth

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Posted: Mar 2013

About this poem:

I think as we walk unbeaten tracks we sometimes see such graves
yet they must have once been loved

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Comments (6)

darkhorse555donegal, Donegal IrelandMar 4, 2013

i actually thought that was lovely just wrote one myself for a special girl captured in space looking out the window thinking,thanks for sharing

shadow1950OPtaunton, Somerset, England UKMar 4, 2013

ty Liam gives us a sense of our own mortality and how quickly life moves on Glad you enjoyed

Poetnumber1St James, Port of Spain Trinidad and TobagoMar 4, 2013

This is really lovely though it gives a sense of forlorn

madtat29Farmington, New Mexico USAMar 4, 2013

Makes a guy want to build some kind of indestructible monument that'll. stand forbthousands of years so he'll be remembered long after he's gone..Hmmmnn now were to build my pyramid...

shadow1950OPtaunton, Somerset, England UKMar 4, 2013

Hi Sweet Poet
for ur kids words ty forlorn yes maybe but I think also anger that it lay forgotten so soon as It was back in childhood and was a fine friends grave

shadow1950OPtaunton, Somerset, England UKMar 4, 2013

Madtat Have no fear I think your words will live on and in them there,s that monument for all not just to see but to be inspired by