Lost Soulmate

A widow left with a broken heart.

She is a regal beauty of elder age
wrapped in a mesh of loneliness
because of the death of her soulmate.

Yet, she is strong enough to endure
because of her hard, cold past.

Her life is so shallow.
For her there is no cure.

Her beauty stands alone.
Her heart is sewn together
with threads of a sad, sad blue
since her soulmate
has flown far into eternity.

She dons a painted mask
just for those particular times
when she needs to appear normal.

With each dawning day
her wretched heart quakes.

She dresses in plain emptiness
on behalf of her lost soulmate.