Black Marble Pyramid

When you die,
I will lay your body
in a black marble pyramid
on a black marble slab.

Naked and white,
so open, vulnerable,
relaxed as you have never been,
your eyes closed
in forever sleep.

Your skin feels cold
cold as the stone
as I kiss you goodnight -
how can I leave you here?

I walk along the corridor
and leave behind
my love, alone,
and two black candles
shining by your side,
to keep you company
for a few hours more.

All that you are
all you could have been
sleeps with you
and only re-runs in my mind
and fading photographs
and scratchy videos
will remain.

And your soul,
softly sighing in black nights,
and your eyes,
reflecting unexpectedly
in a dusty pane of glass.

SFX 1994