50 years to live

By magicdarer

Sat, 16 Aug 2014
  • 1359 reads
2 comments
 

I have 50 years to live

A lifetime for some

For a fly many lifetimes

A short life for a yew tree.

 

My life will continue with trends

Mistakes

Successes

Failures

Luck

 

My life may be cut short

Or Extended

But for half a century

It will extrude

Then be extingushed

 

After my death

There will continue to be tears

Joy 

Laughter

Broken promises

 

What legacy shall I leave behind

A bit of genetic material

That may or may not continue

Down the line for a while

Ever mutating

 

Shall it be a bunch of poems

A kind word or two 

In a rapidly fading memory

A few lives saved here and there

Or a patent, or a work of art

 

Or Shall it be

Nothing much

Or nothing at all

Is it ok to have left nothing at all

Just to have lived for a bit?

Certificate PG
Poem

Comments

Submitted by Steve on

It's an absolutely great poem.

I really don't understand the current literary scene in America. You should really be published. Maybe you are.

 

Submitted by Bee on

I really liked this. The questions we all ask sometimes with a few possible ifs and buts thrown in. You made me think. 

Bee