Foundation

 

Generations dot the hill.

Marble sprouts among the flowers

Presenting only names and numbers

Concealing the past below

 

But time has not ended

It has merely frozen

Neighbors remain close

Couples still face the world side by side

And soldiers stay in single file

 

They survive as a picture

Forever a display of

How they learned what we know

How they suffered what we've cured

How they feared that which we have befriended

 

They strove to build a tower

It's pieces now mark their graves

But these stones

Can be our strogest foundation

If we only take the time

To look back