Sonnet 18 'Oh Now, the Words That Should Have Come'

Oh, Now! The Words that should have come, too soon Do fade away and into Paradise! All that I would have said in that white room, Is fall’n to naught! I’ve mightily paid its price! I reassured you, after you were crying, That I would Always Come – we'd a reprieve! I prayed, and prayed, but Heaven wasn't buying... I would have SAVED you – SOMEHOW! …I deceive Myself! I would have begged you, heartily, not! I would have begged you, heartily, not to go! But I’d relaxed my wires that had been taut, Because I thought you WELL – I was wrong, though! Still, Heaven DID give us that Day of Grace That ended – with your body… empty space…