“All of them are gone except for me; and for me nothing is gone.”
“I carry nothing with me, for you are already gone.”
“...everything is gone except traces of you inside me - and the years like the wind are sweeping those away ...”
“If you are gone then I will welcome nonexistence. There will be nothing left for me to live for.”
“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”
“My classmates surround me as I sit in this folding chair. They laugh and hug one another and talk about how much they will miss each other once they're gone. And all I can think is that I have been gone for a long time, but none of them miss me.”