Carpe Diem Your Shadow

This weekend I had the honor of escorting my wife, brother-in-law, and mother-in-law a few hours north to check on family cemetery plots. 

While at one stop, I couldn't help but notice the shadows cast by the monuments of those who have gone before us.  I came away with this poem.

Shadows
David Kuhn
Ocotber 8, 2016

Alive
My shadow
Weaves between
Tombstones
Gnomons casting shadows
Sundials marking eternity
Sundials marking eternity
Gnomons casting shadows
Tombstones
Weaving between
My shadow
Alive
But, hastily heading in the same direction