scored in bark

Where once were lovers
scored in bark
initials cut within a heart

where once a castle stood
bones of stone, ivy wreathed
moat filled in
cattle graze there now

where once a boy, a man
where once a man, a grave
all things come to decay
and slip into the dark
the ground awaits
your wit, your wisdom, your sparkle and your spark.
and all we leave on earth
we leave scored in to bark