Echo

Poetics Aside Prompt:

For today’s prompt, write a life event poem. By life event poem, I mean a poem that takes place at or describes a life event, such as a wedding, birth, death, graduation, etc. There are so many possibilities.

 

We buried her today

Beneath skies dull and gray

But dirt can never seal away

The echo of her laughter

Dirt holds her lifeless shell

For she has bid farewell

But it can never quell

The echo of her laughter

Oft in the tears I weep

I smile in spite of grief

For I will ever keep

The echo of her laughter

© Janet Martin

Don't you find that? 

whether Time or Death has stolen away a loved one...

isn't that what lingers?

the echo of their laughter...

J~