Are you really gone?

You close your eyes and stare,

The leaves are dry, and the wind is still,

The ground which was green is now barren,

The air lacks the fragrance that flowers used to fill.

You slip abruptly on something that seemed to come out of nowhere,

And surprisingly you cannot control yourself from falling,

You think you can stand up again, but you can’t,

You try to reach out for a hand, tormented your voice calling!

But you see no hand, you are struggling in void!

You want to let it go, but something says you will be saved.

Waiting in patient expectation of reviving again,

Your life now slowly fades away, the life which you always loved!

You suddenly try to wake up from a dream,

But it seems too late for that, you might not be in one!

Now you allow yourself to pass, because you know,

Every hope is now either lost or maybe there was none!

But to your utter amazement, you do wake up,

Realizing it was actually a dream, so seemingly real and bizarre,

That you almost felt as if you were dying,

And your soul was being taken away somewhere very far!

But when you look down, you are horrified to find,

That the ground which used to be green is now bare,

The leaves are no longer lush, flowers no longer fragrant,

Winds no longer solacing, comfort missed in the air!

You would turn around and face the seas,

But will eventually fall upon your knees,

To discover what you wanted to love, and wanted to care,

Is now gone, and no longer there…