In West Sussex, England stands St Mary’s Church
in the village of Shipley
built in the 12th century by the Knights Templer
has a graveyard sheep graze in to keep the grass down
it’s filled with bent head stones, chipped from erosion
blackened and grayed from centuries of wear
the writing on the headstones erased, eroded
those lying under them erased as well, forgotten forever.
Bob Boyd