What Has Happened to Lulu 5RJP

What has happened to Lulu, mother?

What has happened to Lu?

There's nothing in her bed but an old rag-doll 

And by its side a shoe.

Why is her window wide, mother, 

The curtain flapping free, 

And only a circle on the dusty shelf 

Where her money-box used to be? 

Why do you turn your head, mother, 

And why do the tear-drops fall? 

And why do you crumple that note on the fire 

And say it is nothing at all?

I woke to voices late last night, 

I heard an engine roar. 

Why do you tell me the things I heard 

Were a dream and nothing more?

I heard somebody cry, mother, 

In anger or in pain, 

But now I ask you why, mother, 

You say it was a gust of rain.

Why do you wander about as though 

You don't know what to do? 

What has happened to Lulu, mother? 

What has happened to Lu?