"Love Never Forgets"

Cold as ice
lying on a slab;
I sit and stare at him
with hands in a prayer;
trying to unravel the tragedy.
Why did he run away from me that day?
His navy blue flannels untied;
with a blue starched shirt
torn from my hands;
trying to stop him.

My thoughts
crying in my heart;
to share our past confusion;
sensing the need to end it now;
accepting fate as the final answer.
A question to him! “Why love never forgets
the girl all dressed in black;
her grief at the wake
a fading memory;
wishing to die?”

There in the parlor;
no more tears to cry.
Coffins white and waiting;
encased with cotton bandages;
wrapped in our love for one another;
hidden in a dream, to face the world from rejection.
Two souls searching for a reason;
the death of a marriage;
buried in a grave;
lonely now.