Grief

A tree toppled
Onto your gravestone
All silence
Disturbed
Your stillness
Is stirred
For a moment of crashing
Your marbled square cracking
Even the birds
Few but nesting here knew
I should have come sooner
To rest
Right next to you
But now nature’s weight
Is too heavy
To move

-a.r.

fallen tree grave

~ by April on May 15, 2016.

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