My Name Shall Live Poem by Ivan Brooks Sr

Long after the sun goes down over my grave
And the earth becomes my final resting place
Long after my soul has left its mortal enclave
My words will abound from earth to outer space.

Long after my friends stop thinking about me
And not a mention of me until my birthday,
Right when the 'late' is added to my name
While my timid soul awaits the judgement day.

Long after I am gone and my soul has departed
My great name will continue to softly echo
For ages to come, I will continue to be quoted
From the great beyond my words will spell macho.

Long after I'm gone, my ideas will go on motivating
And all the fruits of my labor will abound in others
For ages to come my messages will keep resonating
From roots of my poetry to the minds of my brothers.

Long when I am gone my works will be widely read
And analyzed for the richness of its deep contents
Long after I've sojourned, about me it will be said,
He who lays here was blessed with many talents.

Long after I leave this temporal phase of my life
And my tired old bones have become a pile of dust
Long after I've made widow of my beautiful wife
My great name shall live and never ever get lost.