Morning's Discovery

Upon the broken stairway

Wept a maiden fair

For those she'd lost before him

And he who lie dead there

The rage it crashed around her

The sky alive with light

Of foes offensive deluge

That forced day into night

Her father had passed long ago

And brother lost at sea

Mother died the night she heard

But lived another three

But he who died that winter night

Her night of shiny mail

Did take with him her weathered soul

And left her dusky pale

For he had been her savior

Her courage tried and true

And though the others' loss she'd felt

His love her world renewed

But now he had been taken

The numbness swept right in

Realization scorched like flames

Like unrelinquished sin

And so upon his passing

The doubled, double pain

Did snatch her neck in wretched grasp

And hurt her beyond pain

All night she stood the deluge

White knuckles gripped the rail

Eyes fixed on vistas far removed

Unmoved by fire's gale

Finally at daybreak

The bombs did cease to fall

And by the morning light she found

No house but just a wall

It was I guess that moment

Realization found its mark

Shrapnel snatched her lover's soul

And life from in his heart

But even in her sorrow

And desperate despair

She never lost that feel of love

For he who lie dead there