Lee Gardiner - Graveyards

Churches and graveyards are all around
With so many bodies just lie in the ground
Most of whom overgrown and covered in moss
It seems to me such a terrible loss

Moss and weeds cover the stones
Underneath the stench of rotting bones
Names and dates of years gone by
Just looking at them can make me cry

Old and young and rich and poor
We all end up under this green floor
Some of us come and lay some flowers
Some even lay under tall marble towers

But most have been long forgotten
Coffins all full of bones who lay just rotting
Names on the stones nearly worn away
What a sad end to a perfect day.

Lee Gardiner

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