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On Losing Things

We talk so much about

Who we’ll lose it to or

How it’s going to happen and

We pretend to really care.

 

But in the end it’s just some

Thing we’ve lost to some

One we’ll lose, too.

 

He’ll take your trust in men,

She’ll make you see they 
Really aren’t so bad after

All. The things we let people do.

 

Do I wish we had

Not done it that way that

Maybe things should have

Been different?

 

It’s not like I wanted it

To be all planned out.

And when it happened

With him I couldn’t

Have been any happier could I?

 

After all, we all lose

People or things or ideals

Or trust. That we can never

Give back again.

 

So what makes this one thing

So important? So big to give

It up to someone we’ll lose

When we know we’ll lose

It all anyway?

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Published
May 13, 2010
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