A Night In The Graveyard With Sabrina (My Eternal Sorrow) Poem by Doug Rife

The barking of the dogs in the distance
Fades away as she gets closer.

It is at this spot that I have chosen to spend my recent nights.

I dig into the soft soil
Trying to reach her spirit
That is begging me to join her in the coffin.

With each shovel I scoop up a piece of my past
And toss it behind me
Where it joins the growing pile of dirt.
With each shovel I get closer to her.

Soon I find the coffin,
Which I open up to find her body like I last left it,
But on this night something is different.

As I speak to her corpse
She awakens from her sleep,
Turns her head,
And replies to me.

She tells me she is an angel
That God sent down from heaven,
To help me save my soul
And escape this depression.

As the sun begins to rise in the east
She hands me a handgun
And falls back to sleep.
I know what I must do
If I want eternal peace,
So I pull the trigger
But what happens is disappointing.

When I pulled the trigger
Nothing changed.
I was left sitting alone
With her corpse in this graveyard.