One lifetime, a poem for @siren_sweet

One lifetime

A heavy velvet curtain hangs
Across the last day of our lives
Hiding the unseen beyond
Never to be known or shared
We leave this forlorn vale of tears
In sadness, taking nothing with us
The pain of being gone is left
Unfairly to our too young children
And growing up is hard enough
Without your mother by your side
There can be no easy answers
To give a child whose mother's gone
The only comfort is to know
Your love lives always in their hearts
There's nothing else to say or do
But wonder when our own time comes
What we'll find beyond the curtains
Dark and heavy hanging down
Over this life's final day

Clifton Goodwin
Autumn Twenty Twelve