Hallway to Nowhere

Tag: remembering

  • Brevity (Poem)

    We walk in bone fields of unknown dead

    And crush the shards of countless shattered dreams

    With each careless step.

    Occasionally someone stops,

    To whisper on the wind to those forgotten,

    “I remember. I remember.”

    A bird flying overhead might reply:

    “You have been those bones.

    Pick up whatever dreams you’ve lost and go on your way.

    You will forget again soon.”

    For a brief moment, the sun becomes radiant,

    And the earth shifts.

  • How We Remain (Poem)

    You still live on.

    Not in some celestial hall,

    Separate from those you left behind,

    And watching them go about their lives.

    No, you remain present

    In the stories we tell of you,

    Among those who knew and loved you.

    And you will reach strangers even yet,

    As these are shared,

    And people see your name to ask,

    Who was this?

    While we are here to remember and tell

    And all those who come after us who have heard,

    You will live.