<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518148" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>What Of The Person Remains?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHAT OF THE PERSON REMAINS? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>What of the person remains? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For tens of thousands of years <br>Not even a bone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a few thousand <br>For a few a name and a story, <br>And for most, dust and nothingness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But then <br>Portrait and family history<br>Photographs and then films<br>Clips of a life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now more and more detail <br>Everyman immortalized in each tweet and twitter<br>Eternity in an electronic file.<br> <br>And yet with all this<br>With all the remnants and reminiscences <br>With all the recorded interviews <br>With all the tons and tons of information<br> Gathered around each name<br>What of the person remains? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All these images and information <br>All this non-erasable digital paradise <br>Has not made one single human being <br>Breathe again with the full breath of life. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The person does not remain<br>No matter how many memories and how much information <br>Is left behind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death is not defeated yet<br>As we record and record and record <br>Every passing instant and action<br>Of what one day in an instant<br>May all suddenly disappear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We will forever be unable to do-<br>What only God <br>May do for us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Shalom+Freedman">Shalom Freedman</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518148" data-title="What Of The Person Remains? de Shalom Freedman" data-description="WHAT OF THE PERSON REMAINS? What of the person remains? For tens of thousands of years Not even a bone. For a few thousand For a few a name and a story, And for most, dust and nothingness. But then Portrait and family history Photograp..."></div> </div> </div>

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