Its Final Beat For You Poem by nikki hays

I sit now old and wrinkled
and recall the melody
that the two of us together
danced to then
And i feel your wetted finger
Trace my lips as it did that night
and forever you are in my memory
What was lost is soon forgotten
Say the story books of old
But one hundred years the sleeping beauty lay
As it is with me now smitten
I recall that somber day
When you left me and you boarded that damn plane
I cried for years over you
How you left me all alone
It was not our fight you didnt have to go
But you swore to do your duty countries honour to uphold
Oh i knew that it was ended from that day
You didnt have to say it your eyes they said it all
I knew that you were saying goodbye to me
The salt ridden rivers flowed as you embraced me tight
And the warmth that was there once it still remained
Now i see your frozen body in the middle of the night
And my dreams are horror movies and distain
I cant imagine all the torture that you suffered in your life
Most of all those last few months on foreign shore
But my heart it still belongs to you as sleeping beauty lay
But unlike her prince you will come back no more
If i could beg the gods for just one more gift that they could give
I would beg them to take all this world away
And somewhere in the universe there you and i would be
Holding hands eternal and i would be happy then that way
But you will not be returning and i know this in my soul
So as i turn to close the final page
I blow a kiss to the dried rose that lay there on your grave
As i whisper farewell my love and leave the stage
Oh they will call it many things but they just will not see
That a broken heart a true condition makes
And this shattered beating vessel buried deep within my chest
Its final beat for you my love it takes