<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540642" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lost</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The loss began out of sequence</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Not quite inevitable</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> As the measure of a grief</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> At least in the procession</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The pall bearers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The expenses</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> This loss</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Outrode the cold cadaver</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> lying stiff like a stuffed doll</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Half resembling a loved one</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Casket ajar</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Somewhere in the living room</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> By the armchair now empty of him</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> No this happened, long after he was gone</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The loss happened </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Out of sequence </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> When walking down a road with a familiar name</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Took you by suprise</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> When walking backwards towards home</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> You return to find a dumb child</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Jamming a key into a different lock</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> This was not your block</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> You lost the familiar scent of it</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The room</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The place</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The time </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The reason had left you</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> A blank</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Uncertain</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> NAMES NO LONGER MADE SENSE</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And you belonged to no one</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> No mirror could tell you who you were or are</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> No shopping mall assistant could escort you to safety</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Only a waiting car</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Left with the remains of you blank eyed</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> sad child wasted</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> With a few coins in yor pocket</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> It happened out of sequence</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And suddenly</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Arriving in a white landscape</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The light almost erased you</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Nothing could have prepared you for this</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> All maps signs roads names homes places faces</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Strange</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> No use now</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> More alien this isolated slow death of you</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Wishing</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> One last dance</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> One salvaged heart</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> From the wreckage</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Of all losing him</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> This last slow circuit </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Squeezing out the last ebb and flow of light</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> yvette smith april 09</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Yvette+Smith">Yvette Smith</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540642" data-title="Lost de Yvette Smith" data-description="The loss began out of sequence Not quite inevitable As the measure of a grief At least in the procession The pall bearers The expenses This loss Outrode the cold cadaver lying stiff like a stuffed doll Half resembling a loved one..."></div> </div> </div>

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