Kevan Smith - Dash

Someone once said 'It’s all about the dash'. 

Where or when you start is not important, ‘starting’ is.

You wonder at tombstones of who you loved or knew or never heard of as you wander through a graveyard interested and ghoulish.  You compare their time with your inevitability and are silently grateful that you’re still above ground.  You imagine what their life was like; if/how they loved, laughed, soared, sunk or hated. 

But a part is NOT written in stone?  Their story, their life.  The most important part for them.  The part in the middle is merely covered by……The Dash.

(Addendum from editor: Here's the 'Dash' poem referred to in the text.)