These Old Bones

Find these bones

in one hundred years

when their memory has faded,

when their scars

are reduced to gentle shadows,

when they no longer know

how it feels to have 

the sun kiss them.

Let the life

these bones once housed

become whispers and mist

then, when they are

buried in the earth

they have forgotten,

bring them back to life;

tell them the story,

restore the memories

of the person they used to be.