Friends' Burial Ground

Friends' Burial Ground is a cemetery in County Antrim, Ireland. Perhaps quiet hands dug shallow graves while others watched, trusting that friendship itself was enough to witness the dead. Maybe children ran between the markers until rain blurred every line, then returned home with dirt under their nails and no fear at all. Imagine a woman pressing her palm to cold stone at midnight, not in sorrow but in recognition, as if the ground had learned her name before she spoke it.