Jackson Riley - timecapsules

nobody wants to be forgotten.
nobody wants to die when dead.

an artist is just a bit braver: they leave little snapshots
of themselves
for the future to find.

like when we used to write/draw silly things
in the margins and inside covers
of our textbooks.
timecapsules for the upcomingclassmen.

one’s feeble attempts to ensure an afterlife.

a kind of makeshift immortality.

everybody here does it.

sign and date it.

I was here.
------> X

Jackson Riley

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/timecapsules/