[b][u]The Forgotten Fool[/u][/b]

With the weight of mortality
Bearing down on my shoulders
I took a stroll through the streets
To try and ease my turmoil
While crossing the first block
I witnessed a store open
It flourished for a second
Then a 'For Sale' sign appeared
As its windows went forever dark
I shuddered and impatiently
Waited for the crossing light
While I waited a mother came by
She was carrying her newborn
And as I waited, pleading the light to turn
The babe dropped from its mother's arms
And began walking around her as a toddler
It began growing further but I dared not look
The light turned and I trotted away
The mother and her child pursued me
I had no choice but to quicken my pace
Across the next block I watched in horror
As a building, freshly erected
Corroded and decayed until men came
And tore the building down brick by brick
Until nothing was left but its memory
My eyes began to water but there was no time
My pursuers were hot on my heels
Though the child was now almost a man
And the woman had gray in her hair
I turned the corner hoping to lose them
But I was trapped by construction
The city was reshaping around me
And had now trapped me in its labyrinthine growth
I turned as my pursuers turned the corner
The boy, now fully a man, approaching middle age
The woman, withered and at death's door
It was only a matter of time for her
But the man, her son, held her in her final moments
My legs buckled underneath me as my tears began flowing
Who was there to hold me?
I don't know these people
I don't know this city
I don't know this world anymore
I lean back on the cold pavement
My strength leaves me as I stare up into a foreign sky
"I suspect..." I say aloud
"No one shall know of me either...."