Questions

Can the dead see their tombstones? 

Do they look up through the miry clay

And see the marble and granite 

above where they lay? 

Does the stone hold them down,

or is just the calm or  turmoil or torment 

that keeps them in the ground? 

Do they know where they lay?

Can they feel?

Is anything real to them?

We'll all know the answers soon enough

but maybe we'll forget the questions

Hopefully they won't matter.

                                               Mitchell Plumlee (c) 2015