She was a pitiless matchmaker.
She never forgave your twenty-four years
When you said you'll never be married.
She never knew
You were the one who loved her more than her own life.
You kept her shadow when she died.

Background: my mother speaks about her mother and the eldest sister. At that time being twenty-four and unmarried meant you're becoming an old maid. My mother alludes to the inconsolable mourning of the sister, after their mother's death.