Posterity

At the age of 61
he died and was quietly buried
in the churchyard of the village
several miles outside our town

Of mourners there were few
but in time many famous writers
and critics of the day would come
to recognise his talent and his genius

And soon there after
people came from far afield
to show their admiration

For the poems and the stories
of this fragile unhappy
and neglected
solitary 

man

Here we see them even now
standing silent in respect

Face to face
with the headstone
of his unmarked grave