#FlashFiveFriday: #2 – Graveyard

#FlashFiveFriday is a weekly flash fiction/flash blogging prompt run by The Indie Exchange.

The rules are very simple if you’d like to take part:

1) Write for no longer than five minutes;
2) No upper or lower word limits;
3) You must write something new;
4) You can prepare your post ahead of time but the 5 minute limit still applies; and
5) If you add your blog post to the weekly linky you must visit five other blogs that week too to show your support.

http://theindieexchange.com/flashfivefriday/

Here's mine...

Graveyard

Between the fields where no one goes

Sits a graveyard, dank and grim

All alone the blades of grass blow

Back and forth in the chilled breeze

Nothing speaks in the distancing

In between the jagged thin stones

Memories lie undisturbed here

At peace, longing no more to breathe

I step a while through these places

Tracing a path that never was

I can feel the echo of my yesterdays

Now I wonder if they feel me too

Does my warm breath tease them?

Can they hear my every step above?

The hour ticks forth into a new day

Past the witching time to my dismay

My hands are cold, my fingers stiff

Worn, my feet are tired of treading

But here I go, round and round

Tracing this never ending circle

This dance of mine will never end

This life of mine I cannot spend

For it is gone, vanished a while

In the distant past it fled 

I cannot find my shadow here

Bereft I no longer have my voice

Between the grave stones I dance

Alone on this empty uneven path.