I think this song is about two different situations. One being that the person that is reading the letter got it from Rosemary. He is just reading what she has written down. I get this because when you listen to the song the line's "I know she was aching" and "She knew he was gone" are both in the present instead of the past like the poem reads. As the poem reads we are hearing about someone reading a womans suicide letter after she find out he has died at war she kills herself to avoid isolation. Or with the present used "I know she's aching" and "She know's he's gone" as sang in the song. You can see that it is just someone reading a letter from a friend and he can see that she is sad. Leave it to Opeth to write somthing so complex and beautiful.
I think this song is about two different situations. One being that the person that is reading the letter got it from Rosemary. He is just reading what she has written down. I get this because when you listen to the song the line's "I know she was aching" and "She knew he was gone" are both in the present instead of the past like the poem reads. As the poem reads we are hearing about someone reading a womans suicide letter after she find out he has died at war she kills herself to avoid isolation. Or with the present used "I know she's aching" and "She know's he's gone" as sang in the song. You can see that it is just someone reading a letter from a friend and he can see that she is sad. Leave it to Opeth to write somthing so complex and beautiful.