A stake in the ground

Loughborough Cemetery, Loughborough, UK
August 2010
Taken with my SE 350i

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolute and unbroken continuity.
What is this death but a negligible accident?
"Death is nothing at all" by Henry Scott Holland

i was way too early for my appointment
so i wandered down the main road
i followed a man, in combats and with a small eagle in his hands
he turned into a fenced gate..
and there it was.. the cemetery I've always meant to go to
but never before did

i did, for a few minutes, question the wisdom of being in a cemetery by myself
not because of ghosts.. but because of the overwhelming quiet
but this is loughborough, and i was safe

so tranquility found me, just for those few minutes
as i edged closer to read the poem on a tombstone nearest to me
until i saw the date inscribed
it startled me
.. because those four numbers have been etched into my mind for years

i walked back to the bench ..
and realised that, that same date was inscribed on the bench as well

Ancient Burmese believe in signs
maybe i should too
still..
.. some deaths are easier to handle than others, i guess