A Wedding Lose
A woman stands at the edge,
All pristine and white.
With her hair tied back,
And he dress billowing wide.
An angel if I ever I saw one,
The sun a halo around her woven locks.
The light below flashed blue and red,
A sequence of pain and sorrow.
The ambulance was closed,
The man within lying cold and pale.
Her fiancée,
A man so dear and so strong.
Only gone for a second,
And now forever.
Her wedding day ruined by two thugs and a knife,
All for the dollars in his suit pants.
Her life was solved,
Her soul mate found.
And now it had ended,
All for some change and a card.
Her father stood behind her,
Panic in his eyes.
His voice was high and loud,
But she heard not a word.
A crowd had gathered both down and up,
One to watch a death a couple minutes past,
The other to watch a death a couple of minutes future.
Whispers spread like fire from mouth to mouth,
Eyes screaming in panic.
The shoes were lined up neatly along the edge,
Tips peering out into space.
The tiara laid loving around,
Hugging the shoes so tight.
The ring,
A plain affair.
White gold,
Of 23 carat.
And the diamond?
Flawless,
A grand or two at any jewellers.
It’s held against her breast,
The beat of her heart thumping against the cold metal.
The stone cuts into the palm of her hand,
The drop of blood falls unnoticed.
She thinks of the wedding now gone,
And of how it all began.
A flute of champagne,
A chocolate or two.
Laughter, joy and love,
And how it all went wrong.
A knife to the heart,
A scream of pain,
A siren call and a broken dream.
A policeman talks,
His hushed and calming tones a buzz in the back of her mind.
Tears streak black down her cheeks,
Waterproof the bottle had said.
Another day,
Another lie.
Closer she edged,
Her toes clinging the edge.
Nothing below but 30 feet of empty air,
A concrete dive close at hand.
Her father frantic,
Panicked,
Launched out and grabbed her arm.
“You cannot do this honey,
Please come back inside.”
“Father you don’t understand,
He was my world
My everything.”
She turns,
Her eyes puffed red,
Her eyes a mask of black.
“I didn’t even get to say I do.”
She Jumps.
All pristine and white.
With her hair tied back,
And he dress billowing wide.
An angel if I ever I saw one,
The sun a halo around her woven locks.
The light below flashed blue and red,
A sequence of pain and sorrow.
The ambulance was closed,
The man within lying cold and pale.
Her fiancée,
A man so dear and so strong.
Only gone for a second,
And now forever.
Her wedding day ruined by two thugs and a knife,
All for the dollars in his suit pants.
Her life was solved,
Her soul mate found.
And now it had ended,
All for some change and a card.
Her father stood behind her,
Panic in his eyes.
His voice was high and loud,
But she heard not a word.
A crowd had gathered both down and up,
One to watch a death a couple minutes past,
The other to watch a death a couple of minutes future.
Whispers spread like fire from mouth to mouth,
Eyes screaming in panic.
The shoes were lined up neatly along the edge,
Tips peering out into space.
The tiara laid loving around,
Hugging the shoes so tight.
The ring,
A plain affair.
White gold,
Of 23 carat.
And the diamond?
Flawless,
A grand or two at any jewellers.
It’s held against her breast,
The beat of her heart thumping against the cold metal.
The stone cuts into the palm of her hand,
The drop of blood falls unnoticed.
She thinks of the wedding now gone,
And of how it all began.
A flute of champagne,
A chocolate or two.
Laughter, joy and love,
And how it all went wrong.
A knife to the heart,
A scream of pain,
A siren call and a broken dream.
A policeman talks,
His hushed and calming tones a buzz in the back of her mind.
Tears streak black down her cheeks,
Waterproof the bottle had said.
Another day,
Another lie.
Closer she edged,
Her toes clinging the edge.
Nothing below but 30 feet of empty air,
A concrete dive close at hand.
Her father frantic,
Panicked,
Launched out and grabbed her arm.
“You cannot do this honey,
Please come back inside.”
“Father you don’t understand,
He was my world
My everything.”
She turns,
Her eyes puffed red,
Her eyes a mask of black.
“I didn’t even get to say I do.”
She Jumps.