lost soul

Okay okay, you got an intensely personal one

They laugh and play
and dance
like we did
singing and silly
rolling on the floor

I remember it like it
was yesterday
performing for
mom and dad
in our old living room.

where are you my lost one?
before the demons
took you
burying you
deep in your dreams
and angry lies
the voices surrounding
you keeping false
company?

while those
who love you cry
watching two sisters dance
and remembering
the girl you used to be.

Author's Note

For Ange, wherever you are.
William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_Two_Sisters_(1901)

Reviews

[redzone]

just too good, too emotional and all I can think to say is (((((KL)))))

redzone

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks, I appreciate it. This one is a hard one for me.

[redzone]

I can only imagine...

[Madalyn Beck]

Wow. What an immensely emotional and heart wrenching piece. It is horrible when we lose someone while they are losing themselves. A hopeless feeling mixed with longing. xo :)

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks. I wanted to send the one that was about my sis.

[Neville]

You are right, I do & maybe always will. N x

[Lyn Anderson]

I feel a need to offer an explanation. I never do. She is not lost to us due to time, or old age, or just regular things. She is still a young woman. She is sick and lost and drowning in untreated mental illness that our system deems is fair and right and just because she gets to choose to be this way - no one can make her come back to us, and that my friends, is the our government's way of protecting the mentally ill from the people who love them.

[Coyote Poetry]

The process of aging. We forget the simple delights. I enjoyed the complete poem. You open the door to a long conversation. I got lucky. I have Grand-boys making me act young in my old age. Thank you for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

A telling piece that releases the reader to dream and take heed a the same time, good read.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you. So many wish to analyze my love poetry. But this one hurt to write.

[Scott Metro]

Very nice..a snapshot from another time and yearning to relive.
Very nice...touching.

Scott