CEMETERY  PRAYER 

               Cemetery stones,

               standing here, row after row,

               close, so close, to the ground,

               like people fallen down dead

               in prayer before their dead ....

               Cemetery stones,

               kneeling here, row after row,

               reminding us that we too

               will have to kneel down here

               someday with these our dead ....

               Cemetery stones,

               planted here row after row,

               rooted in the earth,

               but reaching for the sky, waiting,

               waiting for resurrection and new life ....

               Amen! Come Lord Jesus.

               Come, Lord of the harvest.

               Come, Lord of resurrection 
               and new life.

·      Andrew Costello

(© Markings  Prayer for November 1996)