Lullaby

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...