January 30, 2010

• In the Cemetery (Scavenger Hunt #32)

  The MooncatBlue ( And Nelson too) Scavenger Hunt Throw Down II.
  32.  Something inspired by what you see in this photo by Seedsower.

  I have wandered the dirt roads of this old cemetery over and over
  since the day they laid my lover to rest beneath this red Georgia soil .
  When I weep here I am not alone, the silvery spanish moss
  hanging down from the giant live-oak trees weeps with me,
  it sways as if beckoning me to come seek comfort in the oak's ancient curved boughs.
  I know every monument that keeps watch over the dead,
  placed here in loving memory of the ones they guard.
  They have stood strong and faithful lo these many years,
  some bleached white in the sun and some grown green with moss in the shade.
  I look at the smooth stone knowing that many hands have touched it.
  The ones who cut the stone, the one who carved it finding the beauty within,
  the one who placed it and the ones who have mourned beside it.
  I run my hand over it's smoothness and feel the familiar curves and planes that I have felt many times.
  These sentinels give me hope as if to say we stand here day and night watching,
  so you can go on. 
  And in that moment I am able to do that...to continue on.

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