Poem: A Kind of Immortality

My life breaks apart
on a daily basis:

every character I write
every subject I draw
has a little part of me
that has broken off
to live on its own.

immortalized
but not by words
on a stone plaque
but an idea left behind
on paper, on screen.

I cannot stop it
from happening
the ones so different from me
are still me
just mirrored in a way.

And in this case
ideas last forever.