The Weight

Death is heavy.
It takes six
able-bodied men
to carry it.

Even then,
they must use
a wheeled cart
to load it into
the waiting car.

Slowly,
it will move ahead
never out of sight
as they follow
one by one
to the graveyard.

Copyright © 2019 by AJ Saur, from Particles in Motion (Murmuration Press).