Eternal Denouement from NPC by art.dmg

I have a modest legacy
(Actually…)
Among friends and family
(So to speak)
At least I’ll leave them debt-free
(We’ll see…)
That’s the plan, hopefully
(…Hopefully!)

‘Cause I’ve sought preparedness
When it comes to inheritance
An attorney will transfer all my assets
And I’ll be unaware of regrets
A closet of clothes that will never fit
A coveted golf country club membership
A larder of food growing moldy and rotten
Photos of places and people forgotten
Associates and friends that you never knew
From circles I moved in without you
Property, crockery, Currier and Ives
Boxes of papers, utensils and knives
Prescriptions and luggage, letters and jewelry
Furniture, car keys, investments and annuities
All of it yours to do as you please
Sell it on eBay if it puts you at ease

Who has to pick up and carry on?
Who will defend us when we’re gone?
Who feeds the swans after their song?
The usual eternal denouement

Oh just let me be
(Just let him be)
A footnote in history
(His story)
Hardly worth an elegy
(Eulogy)
An also-ran fading from memory
(Peripherally)

All the things that I bequeath
Can’t be revoked when when I’m deceased
Closure might seem illusory
Since I’m contradictory
Or you might see things you can’t unsee
When I raged against ennui
And I‘ll make sense at long last
When my past tense stays in the past
But I have no final wishes
Just broken promises and dishes
I don’t need a ceremony
Hold the greed and acrimony
Because if you think dispute is merited
You’ll find yourself soon disinherited
A tuned-out dropout from my generation
While the world turns on in restless impatience

Who has to pick up and carry on?
Who will defend us when we’re gone?
Who feeds the swans after their song?
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Ozymandias
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Ozymandias
The usual eternal denouement

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