One day late and the formatting has gone awol. But close enough.
GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME
As an expression of our testimonies to equality and simplicity,
Friends should adopt the use of plain gravestones in any burial
grounds. Quaker Faith &Practice 14.34
In Loving Memory True
Full of Lovingkindness True
He who dwells in love, dwells in God True
. for you
Then a gap
for my name
Not that I’ll mind nestling up to you again.
But there’s other stuff I’m still working out.
I assume that the gravestone as is would not meet the Quaker criterion of simplicity(?) but was ‘a good idea at the time’. The running comment on the present inscription works well, raises doubts and leaves the future open. It works well. Does it need the epigraph? There’s enough doubt in the poem without it.
Yes… one of those poems that says something unintentional while not really getting the heart of the dilemma.. I need to think again… I think. Don’t like the ending either.