Graveyard Poetry

I followed our ghosts amongst gravestones, Byronic,
thinking we knew this old world and all in it,
quoting ourselves, and tearing out pages — 
Oh life! Oh death! Oh lover! Oh love!

I followed our echoes rebounding off ruins,
I followed the dust of our footprints through ages,
I followed the scent of the ink on the pages, 
the chapters we threw to the wind.

Oh love! Oh death! But oh love first and foremost.
Its you I adore most ends up in shreds
and even the best meant sentiment tires
my love, lover. My beautiful death.