ALL SOULS DAY
Those who have gone before us
have left us many reminders from
when they walked with us. Dust settles.
Yes - there are many cemeteries.
Yes - there are many photographs.
Yes - there are many reminders.
A restaurant, a church, a park,
a vacation spot, a chair, a movie,
a song we loved, memories ….
But our memory is not a manicured
cemetery. Bald
patches of grass touch
stones leaning against broken stones,
But we are alive - and before dementia
clogs the blood flow of our memory, All
Souls Day, is a good day to remember our dead.
© Andy Costello, Reflections
2016
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