Fade Away, Forgotten

You’ll never be forgotten.
lies you’ve been told.
Yes, we loved
you dearly,
but we know
how this will go.
Your name will
fade away.
Your tombstone
brittle, old.
Pain, rain, time.
Polished marble eroding,
illegible to eyes
of the passersby.
Yes we love you dearly.
And yes, we always will
but when we tell our children,
they will not remember.
and your tombstone,
illegible, will
fade away.
All of ours will do the same.
All are forgotten.
It’s a fact of death.
No one will remember,
the good times we’ve spent.
One day, your
headstone will fade,
and all that’ll
remain is an
unmarked grave.
Like many, 
the cemetery
near the church,
and they’ll not
replace them,
Too long ago.
So while we’ll remember,
others will forget.
Just the way it goes.
Way life always ends.
Time heals its wounds,
And it rings true for all.
Forgive them for leaving,
you’ll stand with them soon.
But remember,
you’ll be forgotten.
Like the forgotten
we don’t know,
and the stories our
grandparents used to tell.
Tears cried unknown,
parents of the lost, and dying.
But let it be known
that you will never be forgotten,
in the book of life
held by the one who never forgets.
He will never forget,
the lives we lived.

SKEA