"in the Street Light"

In the dead of night, surrounded by an odd white light, A woman stands with strands of hair in her face, and a letter in her hands. She kneels on the ground and feels the cold cement, knowing what the letter conceals, A tear runs down her face while she sits alone in this foreign place; her heart quickens pace. Her life passes before her, she feels she can move no further, and her breaths grow shorter The street lamp above flickers out, revealing every doubt shown in her weary pout A car passes by and again she begins to cry, for the one that has died The letter falls to the ground, and there is no sound to be found as it falls On the front is the seal from the United States Army, and a worn piece of her husband’s uniform