The Last Dance

Lullaby

The Last Dance


curious to see you lying in this place 
so still so full of nothing 
and tortuous the memory of the last glance 
into the face of one so dear 
so beautiful in life so hungry 
heart dispensing joy so full of god 
so like an angel in word and heart and deed and life 
so now in death 

you passed away your hungry heart is martyred 
for all but not in vain if not unchanged 
inheriting your hungry heart 

so like a flower strong and vulnerable beauty is a gift 
swiftly taken away 
the world and I have lost a light in you 
long before your time 
and with no one to blame 
from dust onto the earth into the earth 
and back into dust again this is our destiny 
I remember you and death hangs over my head 
it's a shadow on my heart 
you wouldn't want me this way 

passed away...