The pathos of hope at cemeteries

Most country cemeteries seem forlorn, not because of the worn, weathering stones, but because of their few visitors,… but mainly because of the tombstones and their epitaphs… Abandoned cemeteries most reveal the hopeless hope of their stones to permanent memory.

The cemetery stones reveal an earthly human hope for a life beyond, but the stones themselves are often neglected, those memorialized on them often forgotten.

In those cemeteries filled with hundreds or thousands of carved stones over bodies now bones… Who are the stones for? Are they not rather memorials to a pathos of hope? In 100, 200, and 500 years… what sense have the stones?

However much belief there was at the burials they are really a sad earthly human plea of hope.

(Union Springs, Alabama.)