As for those who leave
everything we know
to walk the paths of forgetting,
what do they leave
behind them when they go?
Memories, certainly, for those of us
who stay - their presence
in our sense of who we are,
what we did with them and they with us;
Their deeds that continue in the world
they left, that chain of cause and effect
that death can never break;
Their presence in a universe where they
will always dwell, though identity
shifts and re-assigns cell by cell
because, though lives are lost,
Life always finds the way.
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