A Love Burial

My Love a corpse, placed into the earth

Enclosed by soil, the bosom of a world

My carcass, a cold stillness of a soul

Into a heart, laid in stony silence

My coffin as noiseless as a shadow

Devotion of a lover consigned to the grave

My sky, as dark as midnight, a blackness paved

Upon which poppies and florets danced

Embedded like an apparel of red

And underneath was affection in doom

Laid to rest was passion within my tomb

On which crosses as mournful as death stood

Monumental crucifixion upon my sepulchre

Sorrow like laughter, overhead like voices of thunder

With showered raindrops of tears from eyes of clouds

The grief was like a storm above my love’s head

Among thousands, I’ll sleep for years in bed

Never to awake beneath the skin of the earth