A POISONED SOUL PREVENTS A WIDOW'S REST

ANNIVERSARY

I went to visit you today, husband

Six months since you have passed

The sun, the wind, the deep-blue sky,

The swaying ebony trees

Sang of our past

I brought blue flowers for your stone

The ones you used to love

And I relived the days and nights we had...

Your face, your laugh, your touch

And then I came upon your plot

And was dumbstruck, and pained to see

The ones that I had brought, the pot

Broken and strewn amid the grass and weeds

Someone had thrown our flowers away

Replaced with plastic blooms instead

And in the place where "wife" was writ...

An ugly violent

scratch

There is a soul roaming the land

with poison in her breast
An offspring who's had venom fill her ear
By a jealous former mate

And who will drink the bitter cup of hate

Long after I join you in rest

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by juan montoya