in the ground

The day will arrive,
that I will have to 
put this dead love
in the ground,
though as of yet,
I just can’t let it go.

I know that I have to,
I know, I really do,
but for now it is something
I just can not do.

If it wasn’t such a beautiful thing,
in the time it had life,
it wouldn’t be so hard.

I take it’s lifeless body,
and clutch it to my heart,
and weep,
and weep some more,
these  tears
of sadness and pain,

though I know,
one day soon,
I have to put it
in the ground,

and just let it go,
if I ever can.