Five Lines

Five Lines… Here lies Your name Two lines of dates to tell your birth and death, and then a simple ‘rest in peace’ Is there no more to be said? I've heard you laugh and seen you cry. In sunlit glade I've touched your lips with mine and heard you sigh. I've shared your whispers through the night until the light of day. I've felt you trembling heart by mine, beneath the open sky. Five lines! Is that the sum of all your life? As though you never felt the sun or strived and struggled to be free! As though you never thought or dreamed, or loved a girl like me.