Alone, I stand beside you

It speaks for itself

Standing in the weary valley,

                Where no man or beast does creep,

                                I lowered the box into the ground

           With silence too rigid to weep

I mourn a friend I sacrificed

                In order to conform

                                Alone I lay his body down

           And curse the wretched norm

No one else to cry for those deceased,

                Or to care now that’s he’s gone

                                Only I can stand alone in silence

           And wait for the coming dawn

I wander back through memories saved

                To many a day we shared

                                The foes we conquered, the walls we climbed

           Into the future we often stared

It was in the bleak and colder months,

                When we had to go our separate ways

                                There were bills to pay and things to buy

            And you died, disgraced, in days

So here I stand, looking out

                Across the land and streams

                                And down onto the unmarked grave

           Which holds my hopes and dreams.

--js

Author's Note

Just tell me what you think. It'd be much obliged.