Remember me

I don’t want the last memory you have of me

To be my breath, or the whisper of my voice

Like a rattlesnake buried in your mind, preparing to strike

For now it's curled up, ready to sleep and stay there forever

I don’t want you to remember me most

By how emotional I could get, the things I’d say

In the late hours of the night, the promises

I made, but could never keep.

I want you to make me one last promise, to cross your heart

And hope to never die, not for me, not for anyone

And to keep one last wish of mine, in my dying:

Never, never remember me.