A widow she lives alone
her husband of sixty years
died a year ago
and is buried in
Forest Lawn Cemetery
she visits his gravesite
except when it’s raining
like her tears that keep falling
she thinks of him
and feels like crying again
and wishes she had died too
and it’s been so unbearable
starting her life all over
alone and without him
she hopes and she prays
she’ll be with him again
after all those happy years
that were mostly like heaven
dying from a terminal cancer
she lays down in her bed
closes her eyes and
feels her life ending
she opens her eyes
right before she dies
and sees her husband
above her in white light
smiling and holding out
his hand toward her
her soul leaves her body
she smiles and takes his hand
and hand in hand heart to heart
they float up to heaven
in love and married forever.
Bob Boyd