Wowsa!! Morg, I have to agree with Gala--you are certainly growing as a poet--This one grabbed me so tightly, I had to re-read it several times! There is a well-known cemetery in my hometown--It is the place where the first Memorial Day was celebrated. A number of Union and Confederate soldiers were buried there, and the townswomen decided to place flowers on the graves of both sides. I have often walked between those graves and wondered about the men buried there. I have also felt that tug that says I am intruding--that this ground belongs to their memory and I can't possibly know who they were. You describe the feeling superbly.

APPLAUSE!!
Becca

"Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. ."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson