Last year this time...

Finally wrote a poem last night:

Last Week, Last Year

Icy winter wind, late February
 Waning sunlight, spectral, bleak
This was the last week
 Of your earthly life last year.

Don't think I have forgotten,
    Oh no!
I remember each single second
  As you lay dying
Though none of us realized
  How darkness was close,
Touching you, whispering to you
  Holding you in its dazed grasp.

We had false hope, dreams
  Stupid denial, wishful thinking
Unaware of the Grim Reaper
  Like a seductive Wraith
Upon a high hill, a shadow
 Cast long upon the land 
Placing a strangling hand
 Upon your heart, hard
And yet soft, sweet, sudden,
 Swiftly taking you in sleep.

The wrenching pain of your loss,
  A year ago this winter,
Haunts my life, lingers in dreams
  And often I awaken, afraid
You never understood, never knew
  How we all loved you
Needed you -- YES! -- even now.

 You are mute, silenced forever
Too often fading away in morning light,
  Yet out of the fog of our past
Love lives on, somewhere in timeless time.