Epitaphs With No Dates
Dying in anonymity
denies spirituality.
Since only the body is dead,
it shouldn’t be something we dread.
People have been identified
as only a body which died
but that isn’t the whole story.
There’s a moral allegory.
Perhaps the gravestones should all read,
“Here lies my body to rot,
to be recycled and forgot;
for my spirit lives on indeed.
The part of me which i loved most
is now a spirit or a ghost.”

Walt Abbott–6-29-2009