Lost thing July 22, 2010
Posted by Phil Groom in Poetry.Tags: Loss
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A poem by a friend. I hope it resonates with you as powerfully as it does with me:
there was something I lost
I don’t remember its name
I don’t know that I’d know it
if I saw it againI looked for it in places
I had seen it before
but it was gone and nowhere
was the same any moreI sought it in people
who once held it for me
but they just pretended
things were as they should beI searched for it in faces
I had never seen
and started to wonder
if it had ever beenI longed for it sleepless
in silence of night
waiting for the lost thing
and missing its light© JH 2010
Please respect my friend’s copyright and do not reproduce this poem elsewhere: thank you.
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