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If I Was Gone

6/30/2017

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This is a poem I wrote in 2012. I imagine all of my poetry set to music but I am rarely able to come up with my own tunes. This one I imagine set to the tune of Learning To Fly by Pink Floyd.

​Digging through relics
Day after day
How did they work?
How did they play?
Broken fossils
Are all that's left
Was the way they lived
The cause of their death?
Their names long lost
Their dreams never done
Nobody knows them
No, not one
Was she a peasant?
Was he a scribe?
Question is, did anyone
Know them even when they were alive?

If I was gone
Would you miss my support; how I always tried to help?
If I was gone
Would you miss my insights; how I always saw through tricks?
If I was gone
Would you miss my jokes; how I always tried to entertain you?
If I was gone
Would you miss my attention; how I embraced your quirks?
If I was gone

If I was gone
Would you ever wonder what went wrong?
Would you think I was insane?
Would you find someone to blame?
If I was gone

Friend of harlots
Frauds and thieves
A wino, a glutton
Was this your creed?
Enemy of the law
Enemy of good
Casting out demons by witchcraft
Or misunderstood?
Want us to rape you
What does that mean?
Did you marry for love?
Why do you smell like a teen?
Wise men say
You were the king
Do any remember
The way your hips used to swing?

If I was gone
Would you remember the foods I liked?
If I was gone
Would you remember the books I read?
If I was gone
Would you remember my favorite dinosaur?
If I was gone
Would my catchphrase finally catch on?
If I was gone

If I was gone
Would you ever wonder what went wrong?
Would you think I was insane?
Would you find someone to blame?
If I was gone

Would you ever wonder what went wrong?

Would anyone find this song?

Would anyone even notice?

If I was gone
Who would wonder why?
If I was gone
Would they look for clues?
If I was gone
Would they find my blog?
If I was gone
Would they find this song?
If I was gone
Would they buy my books?
If I was gone
Would they buy my shirts?
If I was gone
Would they search my notes?
If I was gone
Would they understand?
If I was gone
Would they find my lists of things with no description? Can they read my shorthand?
If I was gone
Would they understand?
If I was gone
Would they make theories?
If I was gone
Would they make interpretations?
If I was gone
Would they ever get it right?
If I was gone
Would they ever know?
If I was gone
Would they cut th...(uncomfortably abrupt ending)
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