Dying Memory

Citizens live while they slowly die
so sad saying goodbye
But then all people inevitably die
and you have their stories, while you cry

Stories repeat less with time pass
transmitting the minimum, the quintessential essence
Yet as generations progress
stories and memories diminish more, rarely less

It's hard to right that wrong
as the future can only cherish a life through their song

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- artwork by Felix Gonzalez-Torres - "Untitled" (Perfect Lovers) -
"...two clocks mounted to a wall. Over time the clocks drift, losing or gaining time as time passes. At some point one will stop. And eventually the other will too. - CW&T -

- mailed to Pennsylvania -