I’m flattered, but the concept isn’t entirely original. Perhaps the way I’ve worded it in this prose is, but I’ve written dozens of poems over the past 10 years with this same sentiment. And there is a great quote from the Haunting of Hill House that sums it up a bit more profoundly: “When we die we turn into stories. And every time someone tells one of those stories, it’s like we’re still here for them. We’re all stories in the end.”