Last Anthem
by Michael R. Burch
Where you have gone are the shadows falling...
does memory pale
like a fossil in shale
...do you not hear me calling?
Where you have gone do the shadows lengthen...
does memory wane
with the absence of pain
...is silence at last your anthem?
Keywords/Tags: elegy, eulogy, epitaph, death, grave, Sheol, shadows, silence, eternity, funeral, memory, memorial, tribute
Mar 27, 2020
Mar 27, 2020 at 12:35 AM UTC
Last Anthem
by Michael R. Burch
Where you have gone are the shadows falling...
does memory pale
like a fossil in shale
...do you not hear me calling?
Where you have gone do the shadows lengthen...
does memory wane
with the absence of pain
...is silence at last your anthem?
Keywords/Tags: elegy, eulogy, epitaph, death, grave, Sheol, shadows, silence, eternity, funeral, memory, memorial, tribute