Those graves

[changelingchild]

Those graves are not tall
Or gaudy
They are simple, flat
Just names etched into plaques
You step on them and don’t notice
They are overgrown and dirty
Mostly
Some have flowers
Waxy, false, and wet
This is no place to visit
No place to sit and pray
These graves seem to say
“Leave us! We are not here under this grass!”
“We are not these small monuments!”
“Go home and smile.”
“We do not endure beneath blank-eyed angels,
whose faces are weathered by rain, whose eyes have never smiled.”
“We live on in your eyes, surrounded by wrinkles etched by laughter.”
Those plain graves
They speak

[Bar22do]

Those graves are not tall
Or gaudy
They are simple, flat
Just names etched into plaques
You step on them and don’t notice
They are overgrown and dirty
Mostly
Some have flowers
Waxy, false, and wet
This is no place to visit
No place to sit and pray
These graves seem to say
“Leave us! We are not here under this grass!”
“We are not these small monuments!”
“Go home and smile.”
“We do not endure beneath blank-eyed angels,
whose faces are weathered by rain, whose eyes have never smiled.”
“We live on in your eyes, surrounded by wrinkles etched by laughter.”
Those plain graves
They speak


so true... and whatever the graves look like! we never "lose" our dear ones as long as our life goes on and honours us and them... thank you for your touching sharing...

[JackieGinger]

Thank you! The meaning of this poem is pretty clear, and I completely agree with the way you put it,the way in which you explain how the loved ones always live on in our hearts! ...although at some point I felt that if the graveyard had a different look, a more embellished one, we should be attracted to go there, but this way we have to be satisfied with the memory...:confused:

[hack]

To my mind a graveyard is too "otherworldly". It seems to me a plea, made too late, to gain admittance to a place that may not exist. Scatter me to the wind, I know that there is a wind.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Wow! And if those graves don't speak, there are now and then people like you who speak so eloquently on their behald.

[Buh4Bee]

I enjoyed this. Stay alive and keep on living.