Graveyard
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"A graveyard is the only place where all distictions are leveled and the rich and the poor rest together in peace".... By Poet
Though the sun had begun bleeding in the West
With an explorer’s gait, I walked jumping over gutters
My track, flanked with knee high grass and nettles
Also, wild bushes of all kinds that grew in clusters
Strange enough, my track ended in an open space
Enclosed by cracked walls, now a forlorn territory
There are raised mounds, overgrown with weeds
I can easily make out, it is an ancient graveyard
Hush… hush is the place, here no bird sings
There is a mournful silence that deepens
Through the weed grown path, no traveler walks
The place, some morbid warning portends
Vacancy alone greets my pensive eyes
Here the wind sighs in silent sobs
There is a muffled horror all around the place
Even the leaves chant a sad refrain
In these ancient graves sleep our forefathers
Their toil and trouble ended on this earth
They must have been perhaps heroes of the land
No more are they part of world’s victory or strife
Some graves are marked by crosses and head stones
But most of them are nameless, worn out by the years
We do not know how or when came their end
Did they die in old age or die in their prime
Or perish in a battle or struck by some pestilence
However, their names are blotted out from life’s tome
They have become inseparably one with the elements
And they lie here motionless exuding a strange aura
I stand with a heavy heart by these moss grown wrecks
Thinking I too shall lie here once, devoid of all opulence
Leaving all my hard-earned possessions behind
Without a name, thoroughly forgotten by one and all.
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Feb.22.2023
Writing Challenge – G-Words poetry Contest
Sponsor- Constance La France
Copyright © Valsa George | Year Posted 2023
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