How can this be?

     I'm screaming at the top my lungs, yet no one hears me.

They pass by me as if I'm nothing.

     I wander aimlessly through the crowds.

I return home. Everyone is dressed in black. Tears are in their eyes.

     My mother is weeping, my father is with her. Now I know why.

We go to the funeral home. Everyone I've ever known is there.

     Even though the casket is closed. But I know who is inside.

At the cemetery the grave is being filled. Just as the eulogy is read He comes.

     No. This can't be. I see my brother. I fall to the ground and look around.

Realization hits. Now I know. I remember it.

     Everyone's left, I'm standing at the name on the tombstone.

I say the name as if in disbelief. The name engraved on the stone..is.....mine.