These eyes, said to shine so bright, will one day be as dark as night

The beginning always precedes the end; sooner or later my life will follow this trend

My blood, my sweat, tears cried by me

Will one day mean nothing, yet I plea: remember me for eternity.

All of those awkward glances, those stuttered words, embarrassing talks about bees and birds

Have to mean something

All I need is to be something

To someone

Somewhere

More than the girl with the striking eyebrows and the poufy hair.

Not just one in the millions, the billions before

Not just another statistic or AP test score...But eternity may be pushing it.

I'd settle for eternally.

Eternally ephemeral

It’s what I am

It’s what I'll be

A fleeting thought, a read book, an understanding, knowing look

A life lived

Lived by

Lived for

Lived with

I want to be remembered

Not by the world

But by the ones that witnessed my life unfurl

The ones that know my philosophies

My quirky jokes

The real me

That love how cliché my unique qualities may be

The ones who know the words I leave unsaid

That understand what’s going on, in my heart, in my head.

Instead

Of trying hard to be remembered

I want to be myself, have no worries, no cares

No need to yearn for the attention of heirs

But that’s just the thing

That's what makes me me

My desperation to mean something

To someone

Somewhere

Because these eyes, said to shine so bright, will one day be as dark as night

And the beginning always precedes the end

Because sooner or later, my life will follow this trend

My blood, my sweat, tears cried by me

Will one day mean nothing to the world, but I see

All I need is the ones who stand by me

Through all of my dichotomy

In our ephemeral eternity.