A Soldier’s Last Stand
Solemn they stand in the grass, cold, white orderly. Tombstones at the Soldiers Home National Cemetery.
Would you know anyone there – the graveyard, I mean? I run by it often, yet I never see a living soul among the souls passed.
I have a friend who wants to be buried there, he wants to preserve green space as much as fall in line with his Army.
Me, I try to run by, run fast, and not think too much about that coming day.
There’s an old superstition that says you should hold your breath while passing a graveyard. Otherwise your breathing makes the dead jealous.
I heard that as a kid and I still do that to this day – kinda silly now that I think about it! In fact, I heard you have to hold your breath til you pass a white house on the other side. I thought it should be a law that white houses are built on each side of a cemetery.