‘How terrible it is to love something that death can touch.’
Down in the dell the crickets still scream and the air still hums with heat. Her perfume sits open on her dresser and on her pillow a strand of hair.
I wish my world would end, for what am I without her?
Oh God, take my life tonight! What use have you for an old man who has buried all his friends and now his wife? And I’m battling to do as David sang: "But I trust in you, O Lord; I say, ‘You are my God’. My times are in your hands."
If my times are in your hands, then grant me mercy, bring me peace.