In this world
too many young women
die young
I’m not meaning
from diseases
or accidents
I mean the ones
that die from murders
often committed by
husbands or boyfriends
like the 68-year-old ex husband
who stabbed his 71-year-old wife
to death with scissors at their
son’s gravesite
some are random
like a young woman
recently stabbed to death
on a subway by someone
she never knew
or the many murdered
by serial killers
this is the dark and ugly side of life
the life some say is beautiful
until something dark and ugly
happens to them.
Bob Boyd