#Cemetery

[bluegangster]

evar flignot was a man who loved too much. or maybe just enough. depends on how you look at it.

his wife died young. too young. took something from him that he never quite got back. and instead of moving on—instead of healing, forgetting, filling the empty space with something new— he built.

a mausoleum. not just a grave, not just a monument, but a masterpiece of marble and grief. carved every detail by hand, shaped the stone like he was trying to sculpt her back into existence.

they say it was perfect. every column, every arch, every inch of marble bleeding devotion. an obsession frozen in time. people traveled just to see it, to stand in the shadow of a love that refused to rot.

but the thing about love like that? the kind that doesn’t fade, doesn’t bend, doesn’t make room for anything else? it destroys.

evar flignot spent his days inside the mausoleum, whispering to a woman who wasn’t there, polishing stone instead of living. and when he died, alone and worn thin, they buried him there. sealed the doors shut. left him to rest beside the love he could never let go of.

so now it stands, a monument to something that should have ended long before the marble set.

a lesson, if you look close enough.

cemetery of laeken, brussels.

the story of a marble worker evrard flignot who devastated by the death of his wife built a mausoleum for her. at first look inside, there is a mourner reaching out to an empty wall. but, once a year, on the day of the summer solstice, the sun draws a light that recalls this love for almost a century.

[cornbelt]

[mynocturnality]

A weathered statue of an angel at a cemetery in Lviv.

| by Alexander Zvir

[ives57]

[heartgoth90]

If you've never gone and just wandered aimlessly about a cemetary, I recommend it. Once you get past the existential dread of being surrounded by reminders or your own certain mortality, it's a super chill way to kill time.

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#gothic #aesthetic #vampire #dark #grave #silenthill

[lilith-the-goddess666]

[germanpostwarmodern]

The reconstructed Crypt Arcades (1953-55) of Alter Nörderlicher Friedhof in Munich, Germany, by Hans Döllgast. Photo by Franz Wimmer.

[jamesandnina6389]

Bonaventure Cemetery

[luv404daughter]

Date idea?

[g63heavenonearth]

Allegheny Cemetery 22117-12

[spiegelgeist666]

[holyghvost]

Burning crosses to the ground, burning crosses to ash.

[leenairee]

Weeping angels

[sorrowsofasoul]

[coldlaugh]