Is This All that Love Can Do?

Is this all that love can do --
buy some earth and stone?
Perhaps a lovely flower, too...
now these are all you own.

Death has stolen everything
and left you in the past;
you've been expecting it for years --
it always comes so fast.

But now you have a bouquet here
placed just above your head...
though what good does a flower do
when given to the dead?

Is this the fate we're all made for,
to live and die in vain?
Is there truly nothing more
beyond this earthly plane?

So is this all that love can do --
buy some earth and stone?
Is this all that God can do --
make us die alone?

Author notes

This, of course, is about death. I got the idea for this when I visited a local graveyard and came across this particular headstone: server2.uploadit.org/files/Damagecase-Imag0066.jpg
Written December 17th, 2005