Unkept Promises

Eons ago you promised to me 

of everlasting togetherness

Today you have reneged on it 

Leaving me in a pile of grief 

You're a liar, I'm telling this up to your face 

I know you are within hearing distance

I can see that all-knowing smile 

of yours 

As if to say 'gotcha' this time

I sit beside you and pray 

I wish to lie beside you 

on the funeral bed

Mourners direct toward me 

pitiful stares, some angered 

at the unfairness 

as to the 'why' of women 

outliving men.

Pray...I never asked for it 

Pray...I wish to change it in this instance 

But there is no way to overrule 

fate 

So, I hide my neck and vision 

like a turtle.