21 Grams
by .:Miki-chan:. Added: 27.6.04

You're just a name on a list of people I no longer know.
I sit and think and it crosses my mind
That I shall perhaps join you in time.

You used to laugh. You used to sing
And taught us all of growing things.
It seems so odd without you there
and the space without you seems so cold and bare.

I think this is how I shall be,
A name on a list, people wondering about me.
And they who know shall slowly realize
They too cannot escape their own demise.

And as this somber thought passes through their head
I'll chuckle and smile, for life is nothing but a state of mind.
So many who are living may as well be dead,
No thoughts of kindness or vigor alive in them.
Being dead while alive is worse than being alive while dead.