Widowers Lament Poem by ivor or ivor.e hogg

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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