Where the Dead Rest

Marble tombs Forgotten by the world: Where the dead rest Forevermore

Went to Gosford yesterday to look at a few houses to rent (no luck unfortunately). It was a long drive and on the way back I went for a short walk around Bronte to stretch my legs. I took this photo outside Waverley Cemetery, just before sunset.

The cemetery opened in 1877 and is one of the most historic sites in Sydney. It's a lovely spot on the top of cliffs overlooking the ocean and many notable people are buried there, including poet Henry Lawson and Edmund Barton, Australia's first Prime Minister.

I've walked around the cemetery before but for some reason the condition of many of the graves seemed to jump out at me yesterday. The cemetery is well cared for but many of the graves are so old now that they're almost impossible to read and walking by, I kept wondering who they were, what lives they had lived - if they were remembered. I guess we'll never know.

It makes me wonder how we'll be remembered, in 140 years.

Photo and haiku © CJ Levinson 2011