Michael Edwards

SHE WAITS

 

 

SHE WAITS

 

Beyond the hills and sweeping dales

that form the same terrestrial curve

in green and dank  and darkened shade

the lands where superstitions bide

a place where  glistening, gossamer webs

reach out and grasp the passing form

which seeks a resting place within

a churchyard where her forbears lie

the vault still  firmly closed she stays

the wrong side of the door.