what’s lost in your quest

· by · in free verse, poetry. ·

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That minute spark
between your breaking heart
and fiery passion in your past

glitters like a dewdrop on the forest path
that turned to moisture
on the bottom of your soles

A precious moment lost
that could have saved you from despair
and from this quest of searching
what you must have lost inside

My friend,
go back through bogs and marshes,
but tread carefully,
cause on the abyss of your grave
you’ll find it once again:
That universal truth you’ve lost
by searching it.

Linked to Real Toads.. read the excellent intro by Corey, to fully understand my poem.
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September 26, 2014

15 responses to “what’s lost in your quest”

  5. Striking the touchstone between hope and despair makes for a very strong image. And yes, the resulting spark can so easily be lost, or even misfire into something darker.

  8. Eeriness–Beckett-like eerie–when an abyss holds the truth–that one searches and paradoxically can only find by not searching. Sometimes that search is for a shadow, a lost past. Eerie, effective poem.

  10. Woohoo!!!!!! That it’s a powerful social comment! Nice twist on the subject matter, and yes I believe that maybe a big part of it. Great work and thanks for playing!

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