What do I mean to you if I die this instant?

D.David croot
2 min readDec 24, 2021

What do I mean to you if I die this instant?

An inconvenience to be overcome and swept away?

An image to be forgotten?

If your reply is too weep

Then why?

What would it mean to emote?

I am but but a vagabondage spirit with a home

If I were to die this instant what would you mean to me?

All too often my answer is nothing, entertainment perhaps?

This model of thought shaves the shit from my life before you rot what I might transcend into.

There are a few, one in particular to which my heart would bleed and bleed and bleed…

It would not stop

And time would corrupt

And the air would bile

And my smile would rot

And your memory would spin

And my soul would cease

And your love would know

there was only one!

To other lesser beings unworthy of anybodies time I ask

What do you appreciate?

What is your meaning to this Leonard Cohen song in particular?

What is your opinion on Dylan?

Who are you?

You ever gone insane, inside or out?

Why not?

I always believed that the sublime was mine to just take.

And I ask you, please don’t stand in my way.

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D.David croot
D.David croot

Written by D.David croot

Deviant novelist, candlelit poet stuck in archaic notions of a renaissance man who fails to give a shit… https://ko-fi.com/ddavidcroot

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