March Visual Poetry Prompt
He asked her to place
his most favorite plant
in front of his headstone
on the grave where he would lay
She remembered as she sprawled prone
upon the grassy hillside
of the aged little cemetery
how he’d looked into her green-gray eyes
How he’d implored her to put the bush just here
where it would grow so well
requesting that a year after his death she gather
a flower bouquet to deeply inhale it’s fragrance
In this way he explained with love
and utter undying devotion
she would remember him truly
and together they would be again
As the world around her darkened and she could
no longer feel the green grass at her back
she thought of the lovely Snowdrop blooms
still clutched in her stiffening hands
What’d he’d said was real and true she now knew
as she faded into darkness she found him waiting
standing at the door to eternity holding a tuft
of poisonous Snowdrop’s in his hand
Gypsie’s Wonderful World of Words 
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