You touched few lives
during your journey.
I do not remember
Your eyes or your mouth.
Ashes, your face is ashes.
Not many left behind
to laugh at a joke you might have told
or recall a song
you ever sung.
Ashes, your voice is ashes.
And now your timid
almost apologetic disappearance
robbed you of your last chance
for greatness and drama.
Ashes, your life is ashes.