This Park Without A Playground

The night is calling me back to the low shadows

Of the old cemetery by the railroad

Only soft moonlight illuminates

The smooth granite and marble here

Ancient names mark the plots where forgotten faces

Lie still and deep in the damp soil

Entire families submerged from the sunlight

That long ago left their world

They have gone off to other worlds

Leaving us behind to tend to their gardens

This is not a place to bring your children

Who have so much life ahead along their paths

They need not know about this place

This park without a playground

They need not know about this place

This park without a playground

They have gone off to other worlds

Leaving us behind to tend to their gardens

This is not a place to bring your children

Who have so much life ahead along their paths

They need not know about this place

This park without a playground

They need not know about this place

This park without a playground