This man slept on his mothers grave every day
first, people thought it was strange. Every day, without fail, a man walked to the cemetery, found his mother’s grave, and laid himself down across it. He would stay there through the day, sometimes even through the night. Passersby whispered, some with pity, others with judgment. What kind of man would sleep on a grave, refusing to leave?
But for him, it wasn’t strange at all. His mother’s presence had not ended with her death. To him, the stone marker was not just marble and earth—it was the last doorway to her warmth, the last place he could feel close to her. Sleeping on her grave wasn’t an act of madness. It was an act of devotion.
The man returned to the cemetery each day like clockwork. Rain, wind, or bitter cold didn’t matter. He curled up on the ground above her, closed his eyes,
and let the silence of the cemetery wrap around him. His body rested on the earth, but his mind wandered somewhere else—a place where his mother still existed, where she whispered comfort, where her presence felt real.