#we lived

GUESS WHO'S STILL ALIVE IN 2025 💪🏾😤

then i meet the kid trainer who says “i’m going to win with the MAGIKARP my dad gave me”

i say out loud to myself “it wont be a magikarp will it”

My aunt's house is very old

It's been in our family for years

I went to stay in it once

I slept in a cramped spare bedroom

With just enough room for a bed

And a dusty bookshelf

I often found myself staring out the window

At the garden and neighbouring houses

And wondering who had stood here before me

Gazing out over the same view

And who will come after

None of us important enough to be remembered

I instinctively looked for a place to leave my name

Finding many others had done the same

Dozens of names etched into the stones

That lined the narrow windowsill

My mum's and grandma's among them

So I carved my name there too

And so it remains, with the rest of my family

Evidence that we existed, crying out

We were here! We lived! We are real!

One day, it will be joined no doubt

By more names, more reminders

We made it.