ROSE PLACEDA Poem by Terry CollettON PLACING A ROSE ON A SON'S CEMETERY PLOT.We placed a rose on the plot today, where in a week or so, your boxed ashes will lay. Strange looking at the grass, the ground damp from rain, that fell the previous day; unreal that this is where your final remains will lie, in the casket, underground far from the eye. It gutted me, looking there, the lump in the throat, the eyes full, slight wind in the hedges near by, wanting to pour out, get the hurt out there, pushed off somewhere. A lonesome rose, lay on the plot; all about other stones and crosses and statues, names and dates, words of loss and pain, other have felt sometime along the years, days, hours, ticking quietly from grave to grave, flowers placed, plants in a pot, and soon you will lie there in your own marked plot, words chiselled against the black, but whatever we have worded there, can never bring you back, dear son, can never bring you back. © 2014 Terry Collett |
AuthorTerry CollettUnited KingdomAboutTerry Collett has been writing since 1971 and published on and off since 1972. He has written poems, plays, and short stories. He is married with eight children and eight grandchildren. on January 27t.. more..Writing
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