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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ivor or ivor.e hogg
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