When you are lost
4 June 2022
When you are lost,
Far from home,
No one there you’ve ever
known,
Nothing left to call your own,
Angel comes to fill your horn
Years have gone since things were right,
Days filled, fear, nightmare frights.
All your life played it tight,
Shared your dreams, lost your might.
Hungered wolves now pound your door,
Meat and bones their meaner score.
Old and worn, you ‘ope the door,
Give them what they’ve waited for.
Comfort smile on your chin,
Hold that paper wrinkled thin,
Your name scribbled ink and pen,
Never will, be writ agin.
Lessons left in poem and rhyme,
Lost with you in never time.
Partner came from nowhere known,
“You’re not lost, you’re going home”.
“Peace you sought, never found,
In past years, local town,
Stark and bare, sing love and grace,
Leave your goods, find your place”.
“Other dress up in your clothes,
Play your music, hold your pose.
Now they’ll wander, on their own.
Wonder how, you stood alone.”
“Your strength came not wealth and gold,
Not from simply growing old.
Gifts from others, wise and free,
Lift you up, for truth to see.”