The unmarked tombstones

A small grey stone
Says, don’t step here
Reverence for the unknown?
Perhaps just for humanity

The figments lying inside
Were part of human life

They might have made up
A tall man or a pretty woman
Did they speak the language
Of the hills or of the valleys?

Was he of the jungle tribe?
Was she a noble princess?

Was she a citizen of the far-east?
Was he a merchant from the south?
Which God and Goddess did he worship?
Did she believe in reincarnation?

The answers to any do not matter
No one steps on unmarked graves

But, these answers and marks
Make us hate and kill the living
Oh the strange mystical irony
Not the sacred human life, but
An unmarked tombstone unites us!

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