The Funeral
Her heart smolders
Like the tip of her cigarette
In anger about never knowing
The man who brought her
Into this world.
Now outside with all
These strangers
Celebrating his life
Her curiosity comes
A little too late.
Thirty years cast out
For reasons forgotten
The man in the box
Never forgot the
Sunshine in his grey life.
His body finally followed
His heart which died
Those thirty years ago
When all his days
Turned from bright sunshine
To dreary grey.
Like the tip of her cigarette
In anger about never knowing
The man who brought her
Into this world.
Now outside with all
These strangers
Celebrating his life
Her curiosity comes
A little too late.
Thirty years cast out
For reasons forgotten
The man in the box
Never forgot the
Sunshine in his grey life.
His body finally followed
His heart which died
Those thirty years ago
When all his days
Turned from bright sunshine
To dreary grey.