Lost and gone are all beloved ones

I saw, while half asleep,  her face was gone
She faded like the mist does at the dawn
From the gallery of my loved ones

Ungrounded by the loss, fearful ,forlorn,
Skinless like a worm  placed on a lawn,
I saw, while half asleep,  her face was gone

Do not leave me, do not my love scorn
Lost and gone are all beloved ones
I  am human in both ghost and form

Heart constricted, lungs  pant out my pain
Haunted and bereft of human warmth
I saw, while half asleep,  her face was gone

I shall have no mother but that one
Now I have become a dried out corm
Lost and gone were my loved ones

Like a little leaf from its plant torn
Gnawed by slugs  fragmented  till unborn
I saw, while half asleep,  all trace was gone
Of the gallery of my lost, loved ones