that you kept a clean house? They’ll just
shovel all your **** into bags and take it out
with the trash.

Do You Think They’re Going to Remember
your figure when you’re nothing more
than a bag of bones lying in a coffin? You’ll be
instantly replaced with someone new the next day.

Do You Think They’re Going to Remember
all the wonderful dinners that you cooked for
them when they were half starving? Maybe one
or two that were unusual.

Do You Think They’re Going to Remember
anything you said? They always had their headphones
on their head to block out your singing or composing
out loud. They won’t have to do that now.

What they’re going to remember is how
you made them feel, when you held them
when you loved them, when you made time to
be there.