Literature
Relics or Relations
Relics or Relations?
Does time erode the humanity of the lost?
Or is being remembered worth the cost?
Bones analyzed like the Denarii,
Telling a fractured story of a life.
Lives retold through pieces of history
Detached from the reality of our own.
We relish facts that are held in the past,
In the earlier experiences of man kind.
Are they reborn in our imagination,
Or substituted for a better version?
Becoming fictionalized or idolized.
Like Hannibal or Cleopatra.
Is this being remembered? Whispered names,
Hushed tones, raised voices, telling the story,
Of a life's work.
Is that the way