From the first faltering moments of awareness The eerie, haunting notes of melancholia play softly Beyond every seemingly endless blue sky is the eternal abyss The fate that awaits us all That which has divided and discriminated In life now equalised in death For every flower in full bloom As It basks in its exquisiteness Awaits a curtain call of sepia edges Giving way to browns and greys Then black..as it returns to the earth Decaying to nothingnes