Quietly, Undramatically - Woe

I threw my last years away

To focus on reality’s thread

And when I collapse I know

The string will continue to wind

And with these words I make an oath that silence will outlast me

It stretches far beyond the place that history will know me

For as I sit, secure in what I know is now before me

I focus on the end and how I know that it will take me

Quietly, undramatically

When you’re gone

Frozen images dissolve, discarded

With certainty

The struggles that we face disappear, uncaring

With disregard, quietly time shuffles through the room, unknowing

With disregard, undramatically we’ll fade and then this won’t matter

Breathe in, breathe out

No triumph to be found

Like a stone cast to the sea

I will be forgotten

Let this fade as a whimper against time

I will be forgotten

I will be forgotten

We will be forgotten