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LOST AND ADRIFT
~ Linda L. Dowd ~


Shadows now linger where sun had once shone,
And gone are the sunrises of past golden dawn.
My faith, it does wane, with the fading of light,
As I slip into the dark of an unending night.

I dissipate into an encompassing fog,
And am swallowed down into a bottomless bog.
My dreams have all plummeted back down to earth,
For I've lost my élan and my displays of mirth.

No longer do I, hear the nightingales sing,
Nor the laughter of children ~ or church bells ring.
The moon and the stars cease to light up the sky,
~ They’re hidden by nimbus that rain tears I cry.

The strength has been drained from my body, mind, soul.
And all that remains is small fraction of whole.
I am lost and adrift on dark river of gloom,
I’m the bud of a rose that never shall bloom.