The death knell sounds sonorously. <br />The mourners dressed decorously <br /> have come to say their last farewell. <br />Invited by the tolling bell. <br /> <br />Some come to pay their last respects. <br />Nobody mentions his defects. <br />An unspoken conspiracy. <br /> A custom universally. <br /> <br />observed by all the human race. <br />A funeral is not the place <br />to criticise the newly dead. <br />Perhaps because we live in dread. <br /> <br />That vengeful ghosts will take offence. <br />We choose to lie in self defence. <br /> <br />19/09/2009 <br />http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers<br /><br />ivor or ivor.e hogg<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/just-in-case-9/
