Is there a word
For the day that no one remembers someone? Quotes their poems, enjoys the production of a life lived?
Is that the day the person really dies
And if so, what is the word to mark such moment?
‘Extinction’ is for a species
Where only memory and fossils
remain. But what when records are no more? Is that beyond Extinction?
And a star’s end is its collapse
A singularity in which space and time lose ordinary meaning
and light loses memory of itself at the cusp of the ‘Event Horizon.’
The Old Cemetery in Jerusalem rides the Event Horizon
breaking from centuries of unchanted kaddishes
echoing against a wall and sealed door.
Will it bury itself forever or loosen the bounds of tenses,
a ‘Memory Horizon’ with and without past, present and future?
I Understand Why the Caged Jew Sighs
The Touch of the Sound of the Shofar
First One Through 
Who will remember us? Our own event horizon looms over our heads, our memories extinguished after 3 generations, for that is the life of man.
Unless we are or leave something that cannot be forgotten, like our biblical ancestors, like Moses, like Rashi, or like Rambam, all we leave is the fragment of good we can do in this world. The soul is a living eternity and never forgotten by G-D.
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