Lost in the Woods

This a very emotional driven poem about dreams sought but lost. Also that even though ones seems lost you keep searching.

Lost in the Woods

By K. Edwards

 

Sometimes I feel like I am lost in blinding dark wood

 

Feeling trapped inside looking in the bleakness for the good

 

I was waiting so long at the turnstile gate

 

Hoping I hadn’t missed my train and I was late

 

Deep inside you experience the crawling past and its pain

 

The thunder once more rolls in leaving you drenched in the rain

 

All the roads become forked and don’t know where to go

 

It the seems the harder you try you end up trudging through a deep snow

 

Why do I feel so tired in this crazy race?

 

My mind is reeling as I drift further into space

 

You feel like you’re on a carousel out of control

 

Part of you is missing losing sight on any goal

 

I bear a iron blinding clanking chain

 

Something calls me but still haunts my brain

 

It frightens when you step on the ledge and see the street below

 

Tossing about a crashing ocean wave you feel each blow

 

Inside the numbness makes you halt, less to feel

 

Am I living in a fantasy or is this real

 

You take one step at a time and just carry on

 

The mirror image of yourself reveals you fading and almost gone

 

I sense the emotional glass smashing on the floor

 

Standing in the blistering cold at a solid locked door

 

When exactly did the symphony cease and die?

 

I have become good at wearing my mask where no one can see me cry

 

Voices in your ears tell you what you should do

 

Sometimes it just creates more confusion and you don’t know what is true

 

So I guess for now I will continue to walk and be lost in the woods

 

I will keep searching in the black velvet to find the good.

 

Copyright 1-30-15

 

 

 

Reviews

[W R Stowe]

Wow what deep depression I sense, Thought for a minute as a jumper ready to end his pain and suffering. Life is sometimes just lost and forgotten in our busy schedules and society mandates. Very well written and described about how one gets lost in the abyss of his mind.