-- All Things Lost and Found --

­­John Herlihy

We mourn the things that we have lost.

How could we ever live without them?

We mourn the things that we never lost.

How did we end up ever living with them?

We feel awe at the things we could have lost,

How we valued such things, held on to them.

We regret all the things we should have lost,

The added value to have had if we lost them.

In dread of all the things we fear we may lose,

How could we carry on if we didn’t have them?

Then all those things we found having lost them,

How grateful we were to have them back again.

The endless cycle of all things lost and found;

In slavery to all the things that we are bound.

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Copyright © John Herlihy

Monday 4 October 2021