The Earth Will Not Remember One Flower

We drove by the cemetery in a different part of town Searching for another restaurant where we didn't really want to go And suddenly I remembered you were there; that is, your clam shell was there Carefully wrapped and placed underground, somewhere among the thousands Your inexpensive namecard merely flat brass; invisibly close to the ground And I thought of the oddness of life; Here I was with two people you never got to meet, Who meant everything to me, as you did back when, And indeed always will. And back in my touchy days of grief I could not have envisioned a happy day On a drive beside where you lay, Busy composing your still reverie for the ages. So life goes on, however we wish it would not at times, And though it is difficult to believe, we do get better, by and by. And though the Earth will not remember one flower That we knew together, I realized the cemetery ground is made hallowed By all the love and faithful memories being poured into it: I'm pouring in mine now- Who knows, perhaps it will flood?