Once:

People we have been
those we have seen
carved into the faces of others
as they pass us by
rushing hither too an fro
how we soon forget all we have known
when long ago we were but one
in society's we did share
the thoughts and dreams
of all we could be
the stars and moon
we slept under
and the vast lands we walked
we shared but one ideology
and protected our ways
but now as time has moved on
all that's left
is these images
of faces
on every person we have known
and every person we see
and our way of life
our existence
is but gone
except for being a written word
in a book
left to fade to long ago....