grief

She hid her eyes behind dark glasses
and closed the door to life behind her.
Sixty years, or so, of mindful worry,
in a blink of an eye, his life taken too early.

So she hid her eyes behind dark glasses,
pining for reprieve from her mourning.
Death, unbridled--life's grisly absurdity--
laid claim to him in ghastly solemnity.

Her soul despaired--broken, blinded--
as she hid her eyes behind dark glasses.
The coffin's last nail, echoing finality,
pounded shut: life's grim reality.

Yet she hid her eyes behind dark glasses,
refusing to see what lied before her.
Time, unforgiving, its whips far-reaching
would force the living to go on living.

The veil of memory, billowed inside her:
her first-born son, to live no longer.
In all of one day, she cried the tears of a thousand ages
then she hid her eyes behind dark glasses.

©2006 b.cisek

grief ('grEf), noun: a : deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavement b : a cause of such suffering
definition courtesy of merriam-webster online