The silhouette in this picture is of my son’s shadow as it fell across the old grave pictured here. I took this picture in an old church graveyard, near Cary, North Carolina. The poem that follows the image was inspired by this picture and that day.

Photo taken with an Olympus E600, lens Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm F3.5-5.6, 17 March 2017, by D. Denise Dianaty

Shadows Fall

Places of loss and time long gone
Treading the paths of mourning
Of dreaming ended in nevermore
All hope at an end and buried deep
Left behind by those who lived on
Now speaking to seekers of melancholy
Strangers long laid to eternal rest
Now left to be revered by strangers
Shadows fall on forgotten memories

Poem © 07 July 2018, by D. Denise Dianaty