Sarah Mkhonza "Tombstones Are Greedy"
Published by Sarah Uzunlar, ProMosaik Poetry Tombstones Are Greedy - Sarah Mkhobza I didn’t know that tombstones are greedy. I came to talk to you, and they all looked at me and waved unseen hands and said, “This one, too.” I thought they fought with ants over their contents, the bodies of souls, mingled with dirt, but found they fight for me to look at them and wonder: who lies in there so silent? I thought I was alone and yet there was a contest, fighting for my gaze to turn in their direction. My eyes wandered, thinking of my loved one, whose message was so clear. Who lies here was beautiful. Who lies here was never sick. Who lies here was strong, princess of lonely spaces. If you do not say “hello,” you will miss a message from beyond the now. I said a loud “Hello!” It echoed in the loneliness, arrested my own thinking, and walked all the way home with me.