A Moment In Time

We went in search of names we knew Their stories yet unknown What burdens had they endured in life Would we ever really know? From village to village we travelled around We searched from place to place Past honeysuckle and high hedges Would we ever find a trace? And so we came to Lapley And Cartwright corner did we find The graves so worn and weathered So few memories left behind But there was the farmer Ezekiel! And his wife Charlotte too Their daughters Elizabeth and Mary Ann So many amongst the few And further down another grave I knelt, and under the moss There was Ezekiel the blacksmith Mourning the love he’d lost And still we searched for more and more And roamed throughout the grounds Looking and wondering if more were here Or had time worn them down And so we crossed to the graveyard And two monuments we found Side by side as in their life And now beneath the ground And for that moment time stood still As we looked to one another Two kindred souls who thought upon A daughter and her mother