Monday, 15 April 2019

Dead

Open the dead to help us translate all we know:
Their words massed against likelihood of loss
Faltering with fault or going with the flow,
Piling up emblems or giving not a toss
As they talk all the rage of their long-lost town
Down in time, gripping the tale of their own kind.
How foolish their plans so grand and renowned
Passed on to us since of another mind.
Listen to the dead in every word we speak
Their lives more precious to some, and their parish -
Their collects select and their speeches peak,
Syllables partying lifetimes, nice and lavish.
Only for us is day this wideawake expanse
Us billions, too busy much to give them a glance.

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