“Gravely Reading The Stones”

I’ve been thinking

About my epitaph

But I’ve no idea

What it should say

Maybe they’ll just use

A photograph

To keep the ghouls

At bay

‘So We Go Inside And We Gravely Read The Stones…’

This is it

Where she now lies

The lonely widow

Who always cried

If only she

Had married again

Perhaps she may

Have forgotten her pain

Lovers Reunited

If I
can’t have
the one
that’s gone
then I’ll
just wait
out here,
alone,
until there’s
an end
to all
this pain
and our
hearts can
beat together
again

(Originally Posted 31.08.2019)

Like
vultures

Eyeing up
the bones

Of those of us
who went before

Now rotting
on the stones

It’s finally time

To shuffle off

For of this life

I’ve had enough