Not Even A Thought

Check your pulse...

yup still dead

and what do people do with the dead?

they mourn

they speak

they leave

they forget.

once again merely a memory

a glancing idea only when the issue is forced.

The dead do not speak

they do not advocate 

they simply are.

i am what am

What place do the dead have with the living?

They don't have one.

That's why they are pushed aside into a corner

of the world and forgotten.

No more worth

No more value

No more time.

That's why you forget them

that's why days go by and you could not spare a thought

Like her before who could not spare two seconds and three words

now you are not even a thought in passing.

That's why we say passed away. 

Being of value has passed and we are left with a corpse

useless and ugly

not worth thought or time

old religions believed that the body is just the shell

that when we die only the empty shell remains

do you see now?

the hollow feeling

the emptiness

the lack of value and of worth

what else could he be but dead?

nothing but a memory if anything at all

not a thought

not an idea

just a pile of bones sliding in between the moments

of your life without you even noticing.

i am not shaming you

simply explaining reality

the dead mean nothing

that's why you don't see or spare a thought

for the rain sodden old scarecrow

the dead are dead so why do they matter?

they don't

and you made it so