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All that matters/Nothing matters
Nothing really matters
The heartbreaks, the beautiful things
The sleepless nights you cried into your pillow
And the moments you felt loved
All pass like ashes in the wind.
The girl who broke your heart
That time a stranger shouted in your face
The day you saw your mother cry
Your first panic attack
Nasty insults from your buillies in the school hallway
The second divorce
And
The birthday cakes shared with your family, unevenly cut
The keys to your first apartment, bright and empty
Your best friend's wedding, and the way she looked at him
The toast your grand father made, thikck with peanut butter
His hand holding yours for the first time, warm and a little sweaty
The good and the bad
All of it fades
Maybe not today
And probably not tomorrow
But hundred and twenty years from now
Everyone will be gone
The stories and the names
The memories carved in your chest
Will vanish like shooting stars
Your grandparents will pass
Then your parents
Then you
Then your children
And theirs
Even the flowers on their graves
Withered and return to earth
When traces of us are wiped away
When the earth falls into dead slience
And the stars forget we were ever here
Nothing will matter
Not the deaths and tears
Nor the births and warm embraces
Just moments in eternity
But I guess
If it meant something to you
Maybe that's all you ever needed
To stay alive