Love Died on a Greek Island

Funeral for a feeling

Death of desire

Affection exhausted

Love expired.

Any last wishes?

God only knows what they are now –

Or what they were then.

A cremation?

No longer possible –

All fire extinguished.

A burial then?

Deep in a limestone cave

In the icy Ionian Sea.

A eulogy?

A beautifully bleak lament

Sung by the Reverend Leonard Cohen.

An after-life?

One among the heavenly host

Of dearly-departed lover-ghosts.

A resurrection?

Love goes on –

Or will with another.

A floral tribute?

No flowers please

Just a donation – to the British Heart Foundation.

Funeral for a feeling

Death of desire

Affection exhausted

Love expired.