IDOL week 3. Topic: Intaglio

[adoptedwriter]

 Intaglio

 

“She lives with us in memory and will forever.”

 

There’s just one problem.

I don’t remember her.

I never will.

Visiting the grave.

I can’t cry for her.

I stare at the stone.

Emptiness.

 

It happened to other people.

It was real-not-real.

She did and did not exist.

She knew me but she didn’t know me.

I knew her but I never knew her.

Mythical and magical

Silence

 

Is she really down in there?

Where did she actually go?

Summer sun and freshly mown grass;

This is her scent. 

She has a birth date and an end of life date. 

She was loved and is missed by many.

Including me.

 

“She lives with us in memory and will forever.”

 

But I can’t remember her. 

 

Comments

[erulissedances]

I've looked at many old cemeteries and have felt somewhat the same connection, although I really didn't know the people who had passed and had never met them. Nonetheless, I have always loved cemeteries, and have wandered through many of them. Perhaps that's one underlying reason why I went into Archaeology for my BA and MA degrees.

- Erulisse (one L)

[adoptedwriter]

Thanks! Cemeteries used to creep me out...not so much now, but...