NECROPOLIS

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Mindless wandering
Through the night
Past the tombstones

Names and dates
Float before
My eyes

All are meaningless
All are just words
And numbers carved in stone

Grass bends beneath
My feet; six feet
Below – rotting corpses

The remains of people
I have never known
Or will ever know

Dreams were lost here
Dreams were found here
In this netherworld

In this place of Lost Souls
And Lost Loves
Where a body comes for its final rest

It is where I go
It is where I am
It is where I belong

It is my Heaven
And Hell
Where everything is lost
And where everything can be gained

June 15, 1996

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