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~Amanda~

The funeral bells endlessly chiming,
The muted quiet weeping,
That's all I hear.
The world in black,
blanketed in a faint mist.
That's all I see.
Emptiness, dead, void, non-existent.
That's all I feel.
As they lower the black casket 
into the cold and barren ground
on this lonely and dismal day,
A dam breaks inside me.
My soul rips in two.
I scream at them,
"You can't have him!
He's to stay beside me forever."
I fling myself into the Earth
and flail my arms at the uncaring casket,
wanting to get inside and lay with him one last time.
To position his arms around me,
and kiss his cheek,
touch his skin,
just one last time.
Uncaring hands pull me back,
up out onto the ground.
"You don't understand!"
I weep and scream at them.
My cracked whispering voice tells them,
"you don't understand.
he can't go, can't leave me."
I am dimly aware
of his mother weeping.
They tell me I am to throw
the first clump of dead earth
upon him.
How can I?
How can I resign myself
to let him lay there?
I can't.
I creep down into the hole,
shrugging off those who try to stop me.
I place a single red red rose
upon the coffin.
All velvety and soft.
Such a sweet sweet smell.
And from my eye issues 
a single tear that falls on 
the red red rose.
I know, at that moment,
that he is dead.
And I smile
for I know he is,
at long last, at peace.

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