Mourning
There is much to mourn
The loss of today’s brightness
The belief all is well
No storms forecast far out at sea
There is much to mourn
All the yesterday’s gone forever
So very sad like a wind sweeping away
The voices and faces of loved ones
Lost to fragile memories that soon fade
Into time’s eternity
Tell me though as I mourn
Why there should be the joy of birth
Or the tears of a broken heart
If life ends in empty darkness
Why should we feel love or hate
Make war destroy beauty
If only a river of silence waits to greet us
At eternity’s door
Perhaps after all we mourn for ourselves
And what life takes from us