Goodnight
On the Eve I Die
Goodnight
On the eve I die alone
Don’t morn me
Simply delete me from your phone
Remove my contact info erase all pics and tweets
Don’t simply RIP me
Or shout me out on Facebook statuses
When I’m gone ignore me
Go back to your regularly scheduled programming
Let me slide into oblivion
Where I resided in life let me rest in death
If it mattered that much surely I would have known
I would have sensed the emotional necessity that I placed in hearts
That I etched in minds and lives
So let me slip to slumber
Cast out blindly on the pyre
With backs turned don’t mind the blaze
Embrace your loved ones and hold them tight
Remind them that to love and lose is to lose at best
And to be stolen from and assailed at worst
But still warn them of this plight
And when I lay down that eve
Don’t wish this soul goodnight.
(2015)
Ironically an anti social-media poem on a poetry social medium. People need to know that they matter to others.
