open casket

I wonder in my eulogy

Who will I be?

Will they cut off the shameful parts
With child-proof scissors?
Stuff them away,
Scatter them
amongst the skeletons that once lived in my closet-
Present a funeral service for not even half of a man?

Or will they make me a martyr-
Tell the story of my obsessions,
My addictions,
In a somber tone
“too late for him,
but not for you”
a cautionary tale
instead of my own story

Author's Note

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Reviews

[John the Baptist]

Interesting topic here. The world will say about us after we have gone what it believes or what it wants to believe. Since some are censuring both Washington and Lincoln these days, no one is safe.