Etched In Stone

This or That, Vol 30 Poetry Contest Edward Ibeh As soon as my eyes cleared from the tears I could see that his body and soul were long gone He layed frozen in time Lifeless, naked and sorry Where the songbirds in his eyes Lost forever in the morning storm Still the sun peaked thru our bedroom It's long rays covering the bed Comforting, consoling and calling And lending its hand in my time of need In the background I could hear and feel the doom As the ominous sound of the ambulance closed in Only to confirm what I already knew Where this validation tore at my heart And this punctuation and pronouncement Bringing a flood of unstoppable tears For this was real And a defining moment and turn in my life From that point on My mind was etched in tears Where the montages of my husband's death played on To his past voice whispering and echoing in my head "Honey I had to leave on the night of a full moon" It resonated, etching it's way in large block letters For the mourning, and that morning never ended I kept his secret seventeen years later ... now in the depths of a grieving heart And in my eyes, where the black ravens keep multiplying