Legacy

if i dropped dead in this moment
how will i be found?
what stuff will be lying around me?

how will i be remembered? will anyone remember?
what will happen to my possessions?
what will my legacy and last impressions be?

do i even care?
if my memory evaporates into the air?
what really does it matter?
everything in life will eventually scatter.

what good is a legacy?
time will just make it a mystery
i guess that is alright with me

i prize my things, i prize my pets
so in death i would have regrets
what will then become of them?
in my post mortem?

and the friends and loved ones i leave behind
in my demise, what comfort will they find?
their initial sorrow is unsettling to me
in my absence, how will their tomorrow be?

it hurts to leave a legacy
if thoughts of me come painfully
thats not how i want it to be
I don't want to add to life's misery

theres nothing i can do
life is short and death is true
what i mold before i'm gone
does not insure my legacy will go on

i guess i leave my legacy's fate
to the caretakers of my estate.
what ive created and gathered here
may be of no true value, i fear

my collections and ideas, lost in the dump of time
its the ultimate fate and the most common crime
should i be a victim and be erased
because its better not to clutter this place

i just don't know
trying not to let my ego show
i grasp for eternity any way i can
but in the end, most legacys go unplanned