Not the way to go

At cemetaries

Yes, plastic flowers

Last longer

But are they placed

There for the dead

Or for the living…so that those

Driving or visiting know

You were there…

Today…clean up was

What was going on

At my favorite cemetery…

I drive passed daily

Making the dead belong

In the community still…

There was a dumpster

And all the debris

Plastic, And dead flowers

In pots were removed…

No doubt getting

Ready for the Christmas

Season right around the

Corner…

This is what cemetaries

Should be…

Activity daily

Part of the living they

Left behind…

I love to go and sit

In the Afternoon with

My Ice tea and just

Absorb the quiet

And holiness of this

Sacred ground…

I know very few buried here,

A babysitter Jill and My son’s

High school friend Meghan…

The older section has

Very few flowers ever…

As they have been here

So long that most of

Their families have passed too…

Yet the Masses and

Other activities that are

Planned here affect all…

This cemetery affects

Me more than

Any other….