Disclaimer: DN is O&O's.
Forensics are done and the reports are written.
The case is now finally closed. For real.
Th' ordeal is all over for those who lived.
The last choice's the hardest: forget or forgive.
Your heart has been broken. Your soul is bleeding
With pangs none would care to notice or twig.
You can't help being brooding, you can't stop being feeling
This lump of emotions too hard to keep in!..
Those dry empty stares. Those doleful expressions.
Last farewells to bid in a solemn procession...
The mother and daughter stay stricken with grief.
Condolence is voiced. Body's burnt. Time to leave.
The curtains are closed; dead silence weighs down
Desultory scraps of remembrances, while,
A bottle in hand, you keep moping around,
Recalling the days when you could simply smile.