The silent mourners clad in white
Lament in wordless song
Their soundless screams of misery
Are lost in twilight’s ink
They shake their heads as they hear the news
Far too young, they accuse
Far too good for the brush of Death
To stifle her choking breath
Oh, for she was pure of heart
With a beauty, unmatched
Silver tresses spilling softly
Now are pooled around her head
Adorned with crimson petals
Which will never see sun again
But out of the stillness, a voice
She cannot be truly
gone
The speaker wears blood red rubies
Revolting gems that crash
Against the side of his wife’s coffin
As he lowers her
deeper
deeper
deeper
And-
He must be dreaming
Because she whispers
she whispers
From her bed of dirt and soil
You
you did not think
that setting me on fire
would make you ashes too
my love.
Her deafening screams of misery
Are lost in twilight’s ink.