The Grieving And Sad

In public you have had to struggle to choke back the tears
As you thought of the past and your happier years
When you were happier and healthier and fitter and younger going back years ago
Long before the one known as time did become your foe

The Reaper of lives has claimed the life of the love of your life
You often think about her your beautiful wife
The mother of your children who of cancer died last May
In the local cemetery her last remains lay

She died in her forty eight year this not old one can say
In her brunette hair there was not that much gray
Her last days of life painful since cancer kills slow
And death is forever a fact of we do know

In your early fifties two decades past your prime
and your ageing body feeling the passing of time
Since the Reaper of lives from you stole love away
You think of the what used to be every day

But you cannot change the past in the forever gone
And life all around you as usual goes on
And so many like you in the big World out there
The grieving and sad to be found everywhere.