You need leave no legacy..

Tho you are dogs
that need pee on hydrants
@ every junction you cross.

Just pass by; you need leave no imprint
of any color, of any good, delightfully exotic or mundanely insipid even tasteless;
by marring nothing, impacting none positively or negatively: is legacy enough.

• your Footprints in the sands of Time? - crappy noisy sound masquerading as poetic excellence; thankfully enough such nice sounding 'nothings' get rapidly dissipated as so much transient audio garbage … by time. 
Besides human memories' are never permanent, just as the minds that hold them too are as transient.


 The powers that RULED the world, those who decided the fate of countless, who held sway by foul means - in aspiring to grandeur, to wondrous achievements, to universal acclaim. Those duty bound to protect, defend, serve, uphold - in enacting nationalistic patriotism -


°would the glory of your actions satisfy longer than the echoes of Hiroshima?
°would the deeds of war, of killing, of 'taking out' your 'enemies',   
the covert, overt operations that protected your national integrity, that defended your patriotic values, that ensured & preserved your way of life; endure through Nagasaki's negation? 
°would the heroism of your armies, navies, your men of war; linger on after the wails of dying soldiers or the bawling agony of orphans & the sorrowful smoldering in shattered hearts of martyred mothers?
°would the sons of your dead heroes elate, rejoice their dead fathers' legacy of meaningless victories in solitary alone-ness ?
° would the widowed wives find solace, comfort, warmth and fulfillment in that shred of colored cloth? 

Neither likeness of your heroes blasted into the granite faces of mountains - nor stoney statues of your great dead patriots carved 'indelibly' into ancient hills - impact anyone, anything!
Thus leave not any legacy that make others "late', "departed'
& "victims" "body counts" "casualties"!

The collective sins of the Alliance, the Pact, the Axis of Justice, the United Nations of Truth, plus every euphemistic glorified titles taken by such groups; all these acts of 'Valor' would haunt your memories long after the very atoms that formed you are dissipated into the dust of timeless nothingness. 
Your 'enemies' had as much justifications for their cause! What therefore differentiates your 'righteousness" from their "Evil"
Just leave, get the salvation you imagined was your inherited religious legacy, go receive the rewards that you have so justifiably deserved from your LOVING Maker GOD,  go enjoy and bask in the fruits of your dutifully executed service for your God, your King, your country; just leave this your life, 
go & leave NOTHING else.
The absence of your malevolence would be more than ENOUGH!

How did a Creator with powers unimaginable make such a huge MISTAKE as Man?