Bitter. That surely I am and rightly so,
What you have done to me has scarred even my soul.
You promised me only to have and to hold,
That you would stay here until we were both old.

Now see me here and time has crept,
But as long as I live I will not forget.
Only now there is sorrow and much regret,
you have gone too soon, could you not cheat Death?

And why go alone? I would have gladly come with,
If only to avoid this loneliness.
I am mad, I can't stand another moment of this,
mad that such misfortune has come betwixt.

But I know what I must do to return what was lost,
there must be sacrifice for to gain there is cost.
You and me will never be if this plan is not wrought,
necessity demands that with my blood it be bought.

So Death tarry no longer, please hurry, make haste,
reunite me to my lover, alas he awaits,
On tonight I give my life the whole world to gain,
yes for bitterness to go I must hold him again!
J.S.