Unmarked, Unknown lyrics

In a pastime of photography

With a spirit of wonder

Discovering their lives

And their resting places

Their graves were numbered

Yet never marked, and concealed

They were patients together

Confined to those grounds

They were interred in the land

Left to be forgotten, alone

Those with mental illnesses

Were stigmatized, ostracized

Those efforts to give cause

Brought them a measure then

To be recognized as a group

Some identities were long lost

To walk the land and view it

The settling earth shows them

Time has complicated this plight

For the vast institutions closed

The culture if it has changed

And the facilities have given way

Leaving their graves unattended

Identities and lives forever lost

What justice is there then

That life dealt them such a blow

And a scourge carried for an age

Would relegate them to ambiguity

Or find infamous offenses so

Always losing in life's lot