One Stone - Unknown

you May- think me odd perhaps strange peculiar and off the wall- but I like to wander cemeteries among rows on rows I love the tranquility there is a peace like no other where hidden birds sing melodies and little creatures scurry and time stands still and I like to read inscriptions on tombstones in the dappled sun or rain wet or snow covered gravestones monolith flagstones flat and small all the RIP inscriptions among rows on rows the relic stones I do adore those traces of family history faded now and obscure covered in moss some toppled over I have to get close to read and even then it is a mystery on a bright sunny day camera in hand journal ready my mind at peace I noted one stone inscription reading U N K N O W N this of all the stones this broke my heart among rows on rows no name no date no record no flowers ever I am sure no memorial of any kind a homeless man, perhaps or woman, maybe a baby unwanted so sad of all the commemorative slabs the huge monuments with many names with beautiful words engraved of remembrance with dates and names this unknown stone has broken my heart . . . ____________________________ November 9, 2017 Poetry/Free Verse/One Stone-Unknown Copyright Protected, ID 17-9597-09-0 All Rights Reserved. Written Under Pseudonym. Written for the contest, Two Word Challenge sponsor, John Lawless Second Place