Running my fingers across the stone the carved...
Loved By All But Died Alone...

Scatter my ashes in the places we walked
where we sat and watched sunsets...

Jesus was a Carpenter
Wood and Nails His trade...

Cannon be my headstone
Canvas be my shroud...

I was born aged 93 toothless gums and arthritic...
Whispy scalp and liver spots faded away the...

Sun and Moon look eye to eye there is frost upon...
Goodday, Goodnight the planets yawn as night fades...

Oh my beautiful girl how have we come to this to...
Our first date I waited four hours in pouring rain...

I slumber with Morpheus and he has his way with me...
Or so it seems in these waking dark dreams...

The house is so quite as I walk down the stairs...
beard rasping on my calloused hand the ticking of...

I open sleep filled eyes and the scent of you...
It lingers and torments beckons me from the bed...

Sitting here in the gloom of this small and barred...
My mind is free if not me to wander happily were I...

Happy Valentine's my dear
Its been another wonderful year...