It just doesn't seem to flow smoothly. I'll welcome all suggestions. Would a few periods help? As usual I'm trying to crowd too much into a simple, brief poem. Dewell
Obituary Delayed
ten years in your grave
and I still love you
I only care to guard well
the memory of our love
Truth was the casualty in the war
you fought with yourself
Yet each day I carelessly paint
you in the blue of forgetting
The winter of our beginning
denied us summer and fall
Moss gift-wraps your spirit now
and everything smells of yesterday
Frozen cemetery stone
seasons marching by
and I still love you.
Dewell H. Byrd
Obituary Delayed
ten years in your grave
and I still love you
I only care to guard well
the memory of our love
Truth was the casualty in the war
you fought with yourself
Yet each day I carelessly paint
you in the blue of forgetting
The winter of our beginning
denied us summer and fall
Moss gift-wraps your spirit now
and everything smells of yesterday
Frozen cemetery stone
seasons marching by
and I still love you.
Dewell H. Byrd