Cemetery Wandering
by Keira Clements
North East School of the Arts
Keira Clements is a senior studying creative writing at the North East School of the Arts. She loves to experiment with her style and hopes to someday write for a video game. This poetry collection captures a personal struggle.
Vast eternal cemeteries sprawl upon the grasses of mankind.
Pass along these rows of stone engraved,
the dearest saints once worshiped by our kind.
But they are nameless now, shrouded with clovers and vines.
How many skeletons lie neglected in the overgrowth of time?
Stand beside these rotting spotting coffins,
carved in haste from burly bark long decayed.
No branch of faith could have earned them a special place.
Vast eternal cemeteries wail to us for peace of mind.
Gaze upon these maggot-ridden victims of the earth,
your living eyes fixed upon their crumbled signs.
As you recall their names, howling winds rise.
You, too, will decompose in the passage of time.
