Sonnet - Please

Please don't leave me darling -- I'm still here;

I promise I'm not going anywhere;

I know that you'd react with shock and fear -- 

The only reason you can't sense me there.

I love you, darling. I have since the start.

Thirty years of matrimonial bliss,

I'm sorry that my death forced us to part,

But I would die again for one more kiss.

I know, darling -- you need to move on,

And you deserve to live a happy life. 

I'm jealous of him, but you're right: I'm gone,

And I've no right to you, my precious wife.

I want you to be happy, every day...

But don't forget me, or I'll fade away.

- © Jackson Cambridge, 2015.