Everyday Poems

Your bones lie with those of strangers
An eternal  embrace
Not of your choosing
At your feet a child, but not yours

When, but a child,
you gave life too
A boy
Carrying all hopes, but
Quickly extinguished

No shared memories
Of life’s trials
No one to cast a handful of soil
To weep at your funeral

Instead
A wound too deep to heal
A loss unseen
A shadow cast
Never lifted

Who knows,
Where your’s lies?
Never reconciled
Never loved or loving