Cemetery Autumn

Autumn moonlight
She wanders at twilight
Among the falling leaves
And fallen lives here
Pondering yesterday
Everyone who went
Away to sleep in the 
Autumn mist below 
A stone, cemetery serenity
So much more serene than
Than she any can hope to own
From faraway she’s
Come to read the names 
And the dates of those who
Shared her blood long ago
But she wonders what she wanted
To know reading those date
It seems so long ago, too
Long to really know, under the
Red maple tree they lie
Perhaps in peace
Certainly in quiet
That deepens with the
Dusk as she turns to go away
Into the world where they couldn’t stay
She who has come from faraway
To read these names of yesterday-