Soften Red Sky To Night Poem by Wendy Webb

You're gone and now your body's not the same.
So dull and lifeless, you're not there. It's plain
that you have flown away beyond this realm
and earth has lost a gem, a glowing stone
that sets in ruby night, now you've gone home.
Coal spots, as eyes, you grey my mood to rain.
Buried gently, but infinitely near:
your rest is as an earth-bound, not a dove.
Surrounded by those flowers loved so dear
you are, to me, a garden I can't leave.
To compost you'll return your verve, since here
your heart remains in every bloom and leaf.
Your words are worth a child's delight and joy,
so fly, bright ladybird, my paduasoy.