Mourning

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