You walked slowly to my casket


and looked down with saddened eyes.


The words of love you whispered


really took me by surprise.

 

I didn’t know you felt about me


as you just implied.


I wish I’d heard these words of love

long before I died.

 

Why did you wait until today

to say what you just said?

It’s too late for loving words,


for as you see…I’m dead.