Sonnet 18 'Oh Now, the Words That Should Have Come'
Oh, Now! The Words that should have come, too soon
Do fade away and into Paradise!
All that I would have said in that white room,
Is fall’n to naught! I’ve mightily paid its price!
I reassured you, after you were crying,
That I would Always Come – we'd a reprieve!
I prayed, and prayed, but Heaven wasn't buying...
I would have SAVED you – SOMEHOW! …I deceive
Myself! I would have begged you, heartily, not!
I would have begged you, heartily, not to go!
But I’d relaxed my wires that had been taut,
Because I thought you WELL – I was wrong, though!
Still, Heaven DID give us that Day of Grace
That ended – with your body… empty space…
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