I’ve lost it!
Not sure what it is
Yet I’ve been told
I’ve lost it.
It started with a step.
“he seems to have lost a step”
“a bit off his feed”.
I checked the staircase
All the steps are there
The fridge is full
I think they’ve lost it
I’m not telling them.
If I find it
I’m not giving it back.
I’ll just pick it up
In one of those
Tiny green bags.
John G. Lawless
©4/11/2023
I thought about it, but don't remember what it was I thought about!
Let me take a step back.
I was going to bake a cake.
Oh yes, I needed to add vanilla.
Where is that vanilla?
In the pantry, I expect.
There are so many things in here.
Flour, sugar, coffee and tea.
There're canned peaches,
a bag of potatoes, some tuna and apples.
There is even some mixing bowls up on the top shelf.
Darn! What did I come in here for?
Let me take a step back.
Oh yes, I was going to bake a cake!
I literally feel like I've lost it all
When I thought I was on the ball
I don't want to deal with anything at all
When I knew you were going to call
I don't want to spend my years alone
Without you by my side...on my own…
I will never fully recover the moment you left me in my lonesome tent
I will never fully remember the times we've squandered and spent
Believe in me and you'll clearly see
That happiness is meant to be...with me…
Relieve the sorrow of yesterday's dismay
Grieve not for me - no, oh no…not today
The shallow shadows consume me in the dead of night
The reflections in the water below us is shining bright
I apparently won everything somehow
But, yet I gained nothing - what now?
shoot, i lost the page again
are you stupid
no i am john
which john
the poet
what kind
no kind
be kind
are you the son of jacob
no i am the brother of somebody
who
i am sorry. i am john actually
When you feel you've lost it all
When you feel weak, like you have no power
Sometimes sadness is just too much to bear
I'll be there with you, that moment that hour
When you're all alone, and feel no one cares
I know I know, you have made bad mistakes
Hurt someone special, the one that you love
Just one thoughtless word is all that it takes
You're going to need, some help from above
When you feel the loss, loved ones gone away
Remember my friend, you're never alone
When you feel you just can't take one more day
I'll be there for you, you're not on your own
You must make the effort, try every day
Remember to call me, It's time to pray.
August 26,2016
Sonnet 2 contest
A great poem began to twirl in my head
and so, I revved the old pc keyboard up.
Thoughts and words flowed so I raced ahead
but fingers too slow along the keys were plucked.
For a moment's hesitation gave a lengthy wait
time to rewrite the sentence scrawled
but that arrow on the screen stayed in hesitate
and waiting, waiting, it gave no play, and stalled
the words were locked without a full view of the wall
then reboot came and I just lost it all.
Oh we spark
'n nature in our hearts
Who'd have thought we'd be so perfect
I'm so nervous, should I be not?
I thought about all the letters
I never thought to send her
But still we pass our notes like a couple of teenagers
It's all good now
Just shhhhhhh
You don't need to talk
When that song is on
I've been thinking a lot
I'm good to you right?
You'd tell me if I'm not
I'm just a neurotic
And A tad paradoxic
So if I always worry
Just say I'm a hot ticket
But I don't know why I got it in my head
I just got a bit deluded
And thought you were perfect
When it could have been disputed
And should have been refuted
I should have been more astute and
Now I feel really secluded
My heart has been polluted
Because of course I'm so unsuited
For you I was never included
I don't know now
I can't get over it, time won't allow
Im wandering singing tasteless tunes
And wondering why nobody has a clue
Would you ever say it back?
Lost It On My Lap
Saw another ap
That suffered from a mishap
Lost it on my lap.
Wow. Spell check doesn't
recognize AP. Small world.
Jim Horn
you were my christmas gift
i was a bad stiff
treated you bad
now am sad
sitting around blue
still love you too
you are my down fall
WHENI LOST YOU I LOST IT ALL
LOST IT
trying to remember
what I forgot –
what was it
i forgot to forget to remember? …
now where was i?
forgot your name
getting old
your face is familiar
our fiftieth anniversary?
oh! thank you dear whatever your name is
Dave Austin
I'm not a miss poet.
I'm just a girl.
Living in this world.
With my fair words.
If you think that I make no sense.
You just bat an eye on yourself.
I write about who you are,
What you do.
It's bitter, but it's
all so true.
You'll keep waiting but,
I'm never coming for you.
You're the one who started it,
You're the one who have to fall.
Because, I already lost it all.
Lost it all for you.
i lost my pencil today, i should've written
this poem with it
i should've drawn a sketch that would sum
up all my feelings
i should've, but i didn't.
i lost my shoes today, i would've worn
them yesterday
i thought i'd keep them for a special day,
that day has come
now i don't have shoes to wear.
i lost R20 today, i should've bought a pair
of socks
i should've bought some veggies from that
old lady
on the street so she could feed her kids.
i thought I’d keep it for a rainy day, that
day has come
now i don't have a cent.
i lost my tongue today, i thought I’d only
say something
when it suits others. i should've said "i
love you mom"
i should've said " forgive me LORD"
i should've, i should've, i should've.
i could've, but i didn't.
if GOD could grant you a wish today,
would you wish
back everything you've lost, or would you
ask Him to
help you acknowledge the things you still
have.
you could, 'coz you still have your life.
Promise made
Promise promised to be kept
Lost it all
On a bet
The devil set
Relapsed, fell
Broken and alone
Feel lower than
Six feet under
A promise broken
Tried best to be kept
Feeling lost
Somehow saved...
Need to stop pretending
Quietly whispering
While walking away
"I am not okay"
Happy faced lie
Harder to contain
Lost broken alone
Want to stop running
Tired of hiding
Dreamt of sunshine
Peace
Happiness...
Temptation lurks behind
Each face
Each hope
Each broken feeling
Hurt creeps out of
Every crack
Becoming clear to the open eye
Like trying to stop
Dust from flying
It becomes harder and harder
No longer able to contain pain
Three two one
Me?
I am gone.
A sympathetic guilt stricken with grief filled tears
trapped behind eyes controlled by a mind
greater than the earths atmosphere
taken by surprise
given warnings full speed ahead
trouble forgets the golden days
and the turn of events
albeit splendid of a complete haze
a massive fortune living in space
take me now
leave the hopelessness so well
prescribe in unadulterated fashion
cast your mast and leave a magic hell
forge your honesty on a dollar bill
taking every last morsel
besiege the given moments well passed
for days now my ulcer blisters to health
the sickness lingers over me
coupled with timing and the median wealth
not of any maker more of paper trade
I cannot help what I am
maybe only who I become
taketh the wealth
gone again
below time
where nothing stays the same
It's like fire, then ice.
It's hateful, then nice.
It's blissful, then it turns cruel.
It's smart, then I'm the fool.
Crazy, madness.
Meaningless sadness.
Keeping the faith, and staying strong.
It's my own, personal sad song.
Life together...
Will it make forever?
Sometimes I wonder why I bother.
Should I have listened to my father?
Can't quit and give in.
Often think of leaving him.
I still love and cherish,
But it's starting to fade...perish.
Why? I don't know! You tell me.
Walk in my shoes and you shall see.
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