Friday Art - A Canadiana Poem

Here is a poem I worked on a little while ago.  I thought that there might be a song in it, but nothing that I have liked has developed...yet.  It exists in its current form as just words, a poem, and it may or may not stay that way.

I wrote these words after reading Northern Light - The enduring mystery of Tom Thomson and the woman who loved him  by Roy MacGregor.  Tom Thomson is a Canadian painter whose early connection and influence on those who would become the famous Group of Seven, along with his mysterious death by drowning in Algonquin Park, have given him a legendary, if not mythical, status within the Canadian consciousness.   The book explores the mystery of his death with particular attention to Winnie Trainor, a rather strange sad "spinster," who was a love interest of Tomson at the time of his death.

The Lady Left Behind

Who  was the one who cleared the grave,
Of wildflowers mistakenly laid,
Or so she thought, there could not lay
No, not her one true love's remains.

The lady left behind,
The future there denied,
Two lives were lost the day,
The landscape forever changed.

Abandoned with child, some would say,
Or soon to be wed and then slip away,
A honeymoon on Bella Lake,
No one will know 'twas not her fate.

The lady left behind,
The future there denied,
Two lives were lost the day,
The landscape forever changed.

 Two stories cast, one fateful shore,
One mythic tale of Canadian lore,
As a nation comes into its own,
One never told, barely known

The lady left behind,
The future there denied,
Two lives were lost the day,
The landscape forever changed.