Poem: Erased

Erased

I never thought I’d find you

The grave’s stone’s un-etched

Names are something beside you

But rarely mean what’s meant

I follow along the bayou

Forgetting what I left

I just never wanted to try to

Be what was next

I love finding the new

Past the secrets we kept

But life’s everyone’s review

Let the star counting commence

We try to stay true

To the morals of the rich

But the poorest have the view

Of the shit we’ve crawled in

Under the masks of who

Created the whole ball

You’ll find the dead’s hue

Controlling where we crawl

In the graves are few

Who deserved the fate

But all that’s left of you

Isn’t marked on the grave