For the gall-bitter memories of departure
The tears that never fell
Cause the heart was stone cold
The unuttered words that filled the room
And birthed the heavy laden air
The emotional abuse that draped lifelong scars
And for the stranger in me that knew you not
and smote the bridge that held you and me.

For the insincere sympathy expression
That planted the seeds of cruel hope
The insanity of mind that webbed yours
and clogged the very reason of coexistence
The venomous spits swallowed once
and released twice
The vicious bites
The tarnished images
The heavy stench
The rotting bond
The shallow grave
The living bones
And the hovering spirits that refuse a second death
A thousand apologies for a memorial that never will be.