As I slept

In gentle divalent tones of lush good night

Sleep sweetly wrapped around me her loving arms

Swaddling me lusciously to her heaving breast

She bade me to succulent peaceful slumber

In dreams you reached out with a last hurrah

Your parade hath sounded it's last trumpeted herald

In that place between slumber and wakefulness

I felt the soft breath of your touch upon my skin

That imperceptible wraithlike tenebrous phantom

That is now you

In ethereal other worldly shadowy grace and charm

Bade me goodbye between worlds now unattainable

One still in life lightly slumber

Another now bowed in eternal and ever good night

You have flown away without requisite closure

Leaving pain with questions still unanswered

Go peacefully into your quiet goodnight

For now alas, your last parade has ended

The celebration comes now to a final crescendo

I bid you adieu and so long

As I now awaken fully to the same world but different

The unimportant and banal now insignificant

Family and friends are drawn closer

For within one tiny blink of an eye

Another may visit in dreams to wish au revoir

Farewell, auf wiedersehen , ciao and adios

Life now to be lived as if life flits and flies

In each moment as it were but a lifetime

Until we meet

Go gently into the light

Goodnight!

Goodbye!

N.A.