Allegheny Cemetery

The cemetery by me is used as a park
Picnics in the summer time
Sledding in the winter time

It’s massive
And full of trees

People exercise in it all year round

I always think how beautiful it is to see life mixed in with death

Creating memories for so many where so many lie lifeless and only just a memory

It’s quiet too, you can come here and think
But it lives in the city full hustle and bustle

I think it’s funny though where I’ve lived in my first apartment
It’s quiet, so quiet

All of this mixed together
Having a quiet apartment
Near a cemetery where people use it to remind
Themselves they’re alive

Reasons I love the city I’ve grown up in and have found myself to cherish the moments where you really feel alive

The cemetery has pathways that are clear
And I think that’s a good option for a winter walk
Since there was just a snowfall last night

I’ve been stuck in my apartment and it feels good
To get out and breathe fresh crisp air
Making my eyelashes wet and cheeks rosey

The trees are barren and the sky is grey but I feel
Alive and it’ll never get old to me how I feel so
Alive in this graveyard where so many will never
feel alive again

The snow sits untouched among the gravestones
And when the wind comes
it sprinkles the snow

Life is so ironic how it can demonstrate so much
Beauty amongst the ultimate end point for all of
Us

Where so many of us find sadness
So many of us can find beauty

The music coming through my headphones is
being sung by someone who would find
Themselves here

I wonder if when he killed himself he thought of
The graveyard he would be buried in or what his
tombstone would look like amongst all the
Sadness he was feeling