An excerpt from The Evolution of Disconnect:
This idea occurred to me one cold night while sitting with friends who were picking guitar around a fire in their backyard. We were singing. We were drunk. In the background there was an old turn of the 19th century home built of large river rock. An elderly woman lived there and I began to imagine her life in that home, from the time she was a very young woman, freshly married and raising a family, and all the life she had experienced inside those stone walls leading up to today. I became lost in the thought. The next day I wrote Future Ghosts.
Sadly, both our hosts lost their mothers within the month after our visit, adding far greater meaning to this poem than originally intended.
FUTURE GHOSTS
When it’s all said and done
when they come to take you down
years after you are gone
dead and buried in the ground
legacy woven
into the fabric of this universe
when others gather
to contemplate your existence
what will they say
what will they think about you?
Foundations built
crumble and decay
foundations of a soul
can never be taken away
etch your essence
upon minds of others
tattoo your soul
into everything you do
for we are the future ghosts
never to be displaced
never to be replaced
Love
with abandon
Dance
with a wild heart
Live
as if this is your only chance
to experience everything
this world has to offer
tattoo your soul
into everything you do
for we are the future ghosts
of this place
When you are dead
dead and gone
and others gather
let them say
as they would no other
her passion burned
with the power of a thousand suns
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RW Howell 