grave stone

Looking at the grave stone
the inscriptions intrigue me
thirty years between him and her
in misery or free?


Did they disturb the bones?
or place them side by side
was there a loving embrace
that in life was denied


did the spirits whisper
why did you wait so long
did you suffer greatly
to get where you belong

the carving of the headstone
so intricate and neat
of those forgotten corpses
that lay beneath my feet