The burden of memory

Is the burden of grief

It is for those who choose to remember

Those who cannot forget

It is a burden I choose to bear

For I choose to remember you

I cannot forget your soft smile

I will always remember your laugh

Your too kind eyes

or their emptiness on that fateful day

The white rose on the black casket

Descending down beneath the earth

I choose to remember you

The good and the bad

All that you were

All that you could have been

Your memory will pass on with me

I will never let you be forgotten

I will always remember the love

That we shared

For that my dear is

The burden of loss

The burden of grief

The burden of memory