i never forget

to put my name on my papers

because some day

someone will see

what i got right

and what i got wrong

and they will know

a little bit

of me

with the chairs covered in moss

and the desks still lined up in rows

and the walls now long crumbled

all you will hear is the absence of our voices

all you will hear is our silence

but you don't have to hear us

to know who we are.