The Dawn Chorus…

I am but a child, a daughter terrified
I am fairly small yet I cannot hide
I watch the stars high up in the sky
As they all go out one by one
The night keeps getting colder
The days are no longer
The Darkness has won
I cannot see
Where you are
My love;
Gone.

Now,
How long
‘Til l watch
My own self or
The one that made me,
Gave me this heavy heart
To carry and too much love,
Wither and shrivel and leave me?
How long until Time has nothing else,
Not a single second, no more souls
To harvest and add to Its tally of lives?