" Paper Hearts Can Never Break."

Paper hearts can never break
when waiting there tomorrow;
to hear the dreaded call!
Men in gray to hold me
staggering to the floor;
my heart beating faster
to wake the dream.

Her body naked
beneath the leaves
falling before me;
a nightingale in flight
to lead me away
to yesterdays deed,
too late to save me.

The Chaplain stuttering
his prayer to pray
a cloth upon my face;
the trap door now open
pirouetting a dance;
a fall to break my neck,
the surprise in his eyes;

too painful to fear
the knife in my hand
cutting her lover deep;
running to the Sheriff,
as my memory fades
away from him there;
my wife his child to bare.