Cold Of Graves Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

then
in the cold of graves
you will not find chains
they remain outside
they be polite.

But ah! they hurt so much
during so many years...
but wait - they did not
do
on purpose -
so say they at least
they said
'We be confessing'

for fires
be as of night
and night the leveler
it assuages pain
even when heaviest
chains weigh most -
and
then
in the cold of graves
you will not find chains
they remain outside
they be polite.