ivor or ivor.e hogg - Widowers Lament

Widower’s Lament

white marble tombstone
high lit by silver moonlight
but you are not there.

you are gone beyond
what mere mortal eyes can see.
yet I can recall.

at will how you looked
on the day that we were wed.
I recreate you

momentarily
but I cannot hold you here.
you are gone from me.

arbitrarily
cruel fate took you from me.
left alone I mourn.

for you constantly.
to love too well is to be
hostage to fate.

but not to have loved
and never known togetherness
much too high a price.

we will meet again
though I know not where or when.
this thought comforts me.

here I meditate
quietly by pale moonlight.
what else can I do.

when we two were one
we fulfilled each others dreams.
now I am alone

I no longer dream
but rely on my memories
of dreams that we shared.

when the moonlight fades
reluctantly I must return
to my empty house

where no welcome waits
there is none to care for me.
you were all I had.


Haiku format poem

4-Jul-08
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