Heavy footsteps through the snow

To find the marker set below

Her.

 

To see letters and numbers etched

Into name and dates

Finalizing the event

In stone.

 

Mind wandering back through time

Still can’t comprehend the crime

Committed.

 

But weren’t we all committed

Into psych ward

Mistakenly called a home

With you?

 

Desperate to escape

Before that final act called rape

Of family.

 

You plundered our innocence

Because you needed it

To fuel your sick will

To live.

 

Staring at your stone

My soul lets out a groan

For you.

For her, for us, for all we knew

The myth, the fraud, it all breaks through

My heart.

 

Shredding it to pieces

Pain tearing a path

Eyes lifting up to see

Her heart.

 

I leave you behind

Impossible for me in real life

But now I can

For her.

 

Forging my way up the hill

To her heart, that still

Stone.

 

Irony not lost, she is at the top

You are at the bottom

Places we did not choose, but were given

To us.

 

“Love never ends”, words I chose

For her

Forever engraved in hard granite

For everyone who passes by to know

Her beauty.

 

My love will never end

This truth I can defend

As I finally transcend

My circumstances

My grief

My suffering

My anguish

My guilt

My hate

My bitterness

My confusion

My anger

My agony

 

Letting it all go

For one pure moment in time

In that white-washed cemetery

 

For her.