Behind the old church lies a garden of souls,
Buried and rooted they rest in their holes.
Most I had known from my earliest years,
Others, so ancient, I shed no more tears.
Some, so far fled that their headstones are worn,
So weathered you can't read the dates they were born.
Some are quite fresh, cut straight from the quarry;
Replacing the flesh, preserving their glory.
A gravedigger's duty will never be done,
A daughter today and tomorrow a son.
My spade breaks the Earth, and as I decline.
I ask myself worried, who will dig mine?
No reason to rage, to fight her to fuss,
Death is the terror that takes everyone.
And I am a spirit with nowhere to hide;
A ghost in the graveyard that hasn't yet died.
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Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)
Reviewed on March 13, 2010
Both of us our poems had the spectre of death in our poetry yesterday it seems. Well-written . . .
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