Shallow Grave

unimaginable terror gripped me when she fell ill a fear that caused all else in my life to still words cannot describe the dread that I felt so for the first time in my life, upon the ground I knelt in such fear that her soul would leave I prayed to a God in whom I don't believe I asked why he would ever strike her dead I begged of him to take me instead I pleaded with desperation, sadness and rage she wasn't even a year of age it was a sunny day when my daughter died as if the God who took her was mocking me I buried her in a shallow grave for I couldn't bear to stare at her lifeless form any longer her mother gave me a final kiss then went to be with her child once again I pen this with a blade in my other hand the instrument that shall reunite me with my family