Sentinels

In the stillness of night, atop a solitary hill, rests this small cemetery, embraced by a calm felt only where memories linger and stories echo through generations. Tall, weathered gravestones rise from the ground like solemn sentinels, their presence magnified by the contrast of the surrounding darkness. They are bathed in the piercing light of an industrial park several miles away. A well tended road leads to a quiet valley below, golden in the radiance of barn lights spilling out into the landscape. And the night sky unfolds above it all - the Milky Way painting the heavens with its glow in a tapestry of darkness and light - a poignant reminder of the boundless expanse of the universe and the enduring nature of life, even in death.