So Long Now

Freeverse

That poem I wrote

so long ago

has now gone missing

and I've hoped

so long now

that I will discover it.

Perhaps it went into a drawer

so long ago

and has been taken out in error;

has now gone missing,

though I've hoped

so long now

that it will show up.

Have we not mislaid our stuff from

so long ago?

Is it stuff that may remain

gone for ever?

Though I've hoped

so long now

that we will see something we'll never see.

(Aug 2022)