shocked

Where are her poems, her vitriol,
her vitality, her concern for others?
where is the pep, the life, the loving?

She had disappeared,
and I had not heard from her
but life seemed to have improved
- her acceptance of it.

She came to the world, like others,
and circumstance gave her purpose
as a child, as a young woman, as an adult.

She was ready to reform the world
and now the world stays without her
worse because her space is empty,
because she has gone.