Consider This

You tried writing this before-
your legacy after death, your imprinted soul. But material forms fall short.
Journals can't be trusted,
embellishment is to be expected you're a writer after all.
And neither can memory it's
too superficial memory is flawed and one-sided and regret
is dragged from the cold dirt and
stitched up and revived. Life lessons cost more than they're worth.

-From "Autobiography"