(Lines Written at the Grave of Alexandre Dumas) Cemeteries are places for departed souls. And bones interred,Or hearts with shattered loves. A woman with lips made warm for laughter. Would find grey stones and roving spirits. Too chill for living, moving pulses . . .And thou, great spirit, wouldst shiver in thy granite shroud. Should idle mirth or empty talk. Disturb thy tranquil sleeping. A cemetery is a place for shattered loves. And broken hearts . . .Bowed before the crystal chalice of thy soul,I find the multi-colored fragrance of thy mind. Has lost itself in Death's transparency.Oh, stir the lucid waters of thy sleep. And coin for me a tale. Of happy loves and gems and joyous limbsAnd hearts where love is sweet!A cemetery is a place for broken hearts. And silent thought . . . And silence never moves, Nor speaks nor sings. -
Gwendolyn B. Bennett(1902-1981). -The poem by Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Leonardo's famous artwork "Virgin of the Rocks", and Aeris’'sTheme off Final Fantasy 7 all try to depict the intertwining of purity/calmness amongst the center of a crisis.....A New Hope.