GRANITE MEMORIES

This is new this year. In truth it is still a work in progress. I recently moved and there is a large cemetery close by. I have taken some walks and runs around it. The other night I woke up at 3am and couldn't get back to sleep so I climbed the fence and took a walk in the dark. An interesting experience.

GRANITE MEMORIES

Small rolling hills and narrow roads,

shrubs, shade tress and flower beds

 lead visitors to their destinations

in front of a carved piece of stoic granite.

They sit amongst many other stones,

cold and hard with letters chiseled

as short and enduring testament

of person passed and deeds of life.

Towards each stone a path does wind

to a symbol placed by living for dead

where the shrubs and trees live and breath

from shared soil beneath carved granite.

Shrubs do flower and trees grow tall,

as the stone stays cold and damp

sharing sun and shade and rain and cold

as life lords a perpetual cycle over death.

Visitors muse and reflect in silent pose,

under the trees and beside the shrubs

standing over memories preserved in granite

serving only those who live and remember.

Small rolling hills and narrow roads,

shrubs shade trees and flower beds

all lead visitors to their destinations

in front of a carved piece of cherished memory.