Mhmmmm... Ahhhhh... We leave things everywhere we go. A word. A look. A little piece of who we are. Sometimes we don't even notice... that someone is carrying it with them. Mhmmmm... Maybe it was something you said on a day you barely remember. Maybe a hand on someone's shoulder. Maybe you stayed... when everyone else walked away. And years later... you've forgotten. But they haven't. What do we leave behind... when we walk away? Is it the words we spoke... or how we made someone feel that day? What do we leave behind... when our footsteps disappear? Maybe something we once gave away... is still living somewhere here. Ahhhhh... Mhmmmm... We spend so much time trying to be remembered. We write our names. We keep photographs. We collect things and call them ours. But maybe the deepest part of us... will never have our name on it. Maybe it lives in someone else's courage... because once we believed in them. Mhmmmm... Maybe someone still laughs differently because they knew us. Maybe someone is a little kinder because once... we were kind to them. Maybe that's how a person stays. Not in stone. Not in photographs. In people. Ahhhhh... What do we leave behind... when the years move on? A little warmth... a little light... in someone after we're gone? What do we leave behind... that time cannot erase? Maybe not our name... Maybe... the way we made someone feel. Mhmmmm... Ahhhhh... And maybe that's enough. To leave this world without leaving it completely.
