August 15, 2015

GOING  BY  GRAVEYARDS

Driving through Annapolis,

heading away from downtown,

when I’m on West Street,

when I’m going by the 3 cemeteries there -

I feel the difference between them

and  McDonalds and car dealerships.

I feel the heaviness  of  life gone by -

family loss - the last page of a book.

Those gravestones weigh me down

like the dead being tossed overboard

at sea with stones tied around the corpse.

But life goes on for me - till I’m buried

where I’m buried …. In the meanwhile

I have many more pages to be written,

many more stories to be part of …. I hope.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019