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The Forgotten Graveyard by Kelly Sandel
from Legacy 2022
The Forgotten Graveyard
by Kelly Sandel
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In deep a woods where no one goes
And by a road that no one knows,
Near remnants of a church of yore
Does sprawl a graveyard, slighted poor.
The once-great iron gates now lay
All twisted, rusted in decay.
The fence that kept a silent watch
Is crushed beneath a spreading larch.
Ten gnarly oaks surround the place,
Their branches cov’ring all the space;
Which makes the graveyard dark and weird
A site that’s quiet, awed—and feared.
The mossy gravestones seem to ail
As nothing’s left back in detail.
How cock-eyed ’tis it would amaze—
But shadows of the olden days.
Weeds grow so high they hide it all;
Surrounds the region like a wall.
No humans come to cause defect,
And so’s a graveyard of neglect.
