Boden Lane Cemetery<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Faded black lettering peels like birch bark<\/p>\n
away from the old white sign<\/p>\n
nothing left but shadows and 1812.<\/p>\n
A crumbling rock wall held together by clinging ivy<\/p>\n
stands like a sentry. I slip between<\/p>\n
a granite pillar and a rusty iron gate.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Moss gives way to bare feet, spongy and damp.<\/p>\n
Acorn caps crackle; overgrown grass rustles<\/p>\n
in the breeze. Headstones drifted<\/p>\n
out of their rows and columns<\/p>\n
crumbling, sinking, broken<\/p>\n
like souls who were lost as time wore away their names.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The air, redolent with summer, lay heavy<\/p>\n
with the weight of its ghosts.<\/p>\n
Crickets echo the fife and drum.<\/p>\n
Mists rise like dawn on the battlefield, and I see<\/p>\n
the ragtag, worn out Patriots of our freedom.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I barely stifle a scream and duck<\/p>\n
when the first shot rings out.<\/p>\n
A car backfires\u2014<\/p>\n
suddenly,<\/p>\n
I’m just a kid in an old cemetery<\/p>\n
playing truth or dare.<\/p>\n
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