Death-Where Have They Gone? Poem by Mary Mc Creath

Where have all my loves gone?
Am I part of a part,
Without significance,
or a whole being of consequence.

What is the consequence of my existence,
of any existence.

To what greater whole do I belong?
To whom do I belong?
Myself?
My family, community?
My country, my world,
My universe, a multiverse?

Of what consequence to all of these,
am I?
what is my significance.

And if I die before I
Wake, then who will come
my essence take?

Who takes our essence,
and where is it put?

I Have a desire, a passion, to
Know where all life doth go!

Answer me, Oh giver of essence
Where tell me where,
have all the essence gone?