You Never Thought that It Would End This Way

November 6, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is death, in honor of the transition from Halloween to All Saints’ Day and then to All Souls’ Day, which is the Mexican Day of the Dead.

Today’s poem is about death as a fitting end for love.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

You never thought that it would end this way,

Yet such an end does not at all seem strange.

If love is true, then death must make the change,

Ending love by taking life away.

Yet though our love is over, mine will stay,

A triumph over death I will arrange,

Rechanneling a fate I cannot change,

That we might still on fields of fancy play.

You never thought we'd share such months of pain,

That you would die in agony, while I

Would be as much a nurse for you as friend.

Yet I would live the whole thing through again

Just once more to look you in the eye

And tell you, yes, this is how it should end.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/younev.html . For more poems about death, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/deathpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Death.

October 31: In Memory of Those Who Died

November 1: Here’s a Little Ditty

November 2: I Am the Mirror of Our Love

November 3: I Didn’t Get a Chance to Say Goodbye

November 4: Every Time I See My Pansies

November 5: There Is a Residue of Hope

November 6: You Never Thought that It Would EndThis Way