{"id":1854,"date":"2026-06-06T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2026-06-14T20:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T20:41:27","slug":"legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1854","title":{"rendered":"Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
When we are gone
when our bones are dust
when are DNA is deteriorated 
and when our belongings 
are repurposed, 
thrifted, trashed:
What will remain?

What imprint 
will our brief presence 
on this orb leave
for those who linger?

How will our memories 
convert to larger lessons
for future generations?

What do we want 
the echoes of our absence
to press into the living? 

We know that energy
is never lost, nor formed
it is only borrowed.

And perhaps it is the same
with emotions, 
with hopes, 
dreams, passions.

I hope to leave a legacy
of kindness
of compassion
of wit
of joy
of deeply felt existence.

I hope the energies that 
fed me
pushed me
directed my purpose
find new homes in 
the ripples and shimmers 
seen in jangling shadows
cast by windswept 
leafy branches.

A little hint, 
a wisp 
of something bigger
in the void 
of my physical self.

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\u201cLegacy,\u201d a little alchemy between memories and shadows, energy is neither lost nor formed, only borrowed. Written Saturday, June 06, poem 157 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo, “Windswept Shadows” by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,776],"tags":[1408,1415,1422,1413,1414,1419,1406,1418,1405,74,177,1288,761,590,1410,1416,1407,130,1409,64,1411,1417,1420,1412,1421,1423],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-poems","category-short-form-musings","tag-absence","tag-bones","tag-directed","tag-dna","tag-dust","tag-energies","tag-energy","tag-existence","tag-feelings","tag-future","tag-generations","tag-june","tag-legacy","tag-lessons","tag-linger","tag-living","tag-matter","tag-memories","tag-presence","tag-purpose","tag-remain","tag-shadows","tag-something-bigger","tag-trashed","tag-void","tag-windswept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}