A TOMB FOR THE ONE LEFT BEHIND

A TOMB FOR THE ONE LEFT BEHIND

I’m trapped inside this vacant room

Locked inside this empty tomb

Screaming out in pain both for me and for you in this anguish for two

Crying out and yelling your name

Because my heart had long belonged to you

When Death took you, my beloved, once more beautiful than a rose

My heart decayed, as your form did into this spectral corpse, no doubt

That my heart, it has done the same

This agony and anguish hurt like no one knows

And I can’t accept

This simple truth

After losing you

God, who knew

That even love is not except

From the touch of that Spectre

That Phantom named Death

I know I should turn and leave

But not even eternity could bring relief

My life is hell, now since death stole you away

In my mind, appears your form

Once beautiful, now made pale and skeletal, broken and gaunt, by decay

And as my soul falter from the sudden shock

I feel myself lose the ground from my feet

And I fall after my exhausted body fails

A fall that I pray will finally sever me from this broken life

And I can’t accept

This simple truth

After losing you

God, Who Knew

That even love so pure is not except

From the toxic touch of that fearful spectre

That Phantasmal Phantom named Death

This catacomb for one sad man

A tomb for a person who’s life has crumbled like castles of sand

A crypt for only me, myself, and I

For without you, my soulmate, here

Without you, my dear, my love, my wife

I am a broken man and a shattered shell

With no soul and no reason to go on

I’ve cried so much I’ve gone dry for tears

Please, oh please, stop this hell who’s fire burns my soul and pains me so

And I can’t accept

This simple truth

After losing you

My God, who knew

That even love of the purest splender was not except

From the toxic and dooming touch of that Dark and Ghastly Spectre

From that cruel and terrifying nightmarish phantom named Death