She Closed The Door: Poem by Sherry Painter

Covered in white in one moment,
Then the next..
Covered in black,
Her lovers life flashed before her eye's,
With only a bump in her belly to know that he had been real at one time.

They had married shortly before he left to serve his country,
And a week later, they stood before her with bad news and a honored, neatly folded American flag,
She closed the door, and went to her room, their room, and slept, she woke up the next morning, and thought it had all been a dream, until she felt a kick coming from inside her, telling her then the hard truth, she knew it had not at all been a dream. What she did then, was move on, for as if she hadn't, she would never again leave her..no, their bed ever again, where their memories lied, and would always lie as would his honor for what he had done for her and her country so she and others could be free...