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.
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