Will you love me when I am gone, like an old but loving song?
Will you write he was so good, he never did anything wrong.
When I am in earth below, pounds of flesh and bone below,
Like a mass left redundant, like a freezing stone, below,
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Stunning write with such beautiful lines that flow with such ease and inspired lines!
You write beautiful love songs. Well metered and rhymed. I enjoyed this.
The memory of having been, is not as important as a mental recall, but as in living to honor the memory through actions inspired by the departed. I loved my parents and they are long departed so my recall of their faces and embraces are faded but I live the life of a good man, as they taught me through their lives, in honor of them. Passing that to my children ensures that my parents' legacy will live on through that generation. Peace
A good read. In theme, content and tone resembles a poem written by Karim Chaudhury on Rejected Stuff. A suggestion: the beloved's assurance should be recorded in a different poem.so that the intensity of the longing to be remembered eternally can be more evocative.
With smooth flow of words, with rhyme and rhythm this poem is a beautiful love song.