Saturday, June 26, 2010

Lost



  For Agata, who has always inspired me with words such as these.


Lost


His touch like summer upon your skin
No place you’d rather be,
Waken in dawn’s early light
To find it’s all a memory.

Did he call you baby
Write your name deep in the sand,
Explain the things you never knew
Or didn’t understand.
Did he chase away the lurking ghosts
Of lovers from another day
As you surrendered to him completely
And got carried away.

Was he just another shadowed hope
Or The One dressed in disguise,
Among the incidents and accidents
You got tripped up in his lies.
Did he call you his sweet darlin’
While he looked into your eyes
As each and every heart beat
Echoed his goodbyes.
Just what is it makes a man
Turn his back I cannot say,
You got lost on his horizon
And were carried away,
Just carried away.

And the days roll by like freight trains
Speeding down a wrong way track
Try to still the memories in your head
But there ain’t no turning back.
All along you somehow knew
You’d breathe for yourself one day.
Swept up like debris caught in his tide
As you got carried away,
Carried away.

Now you stand on higher ground
In a place where you belong,
Took some time to find yourself
But you were with you all along.
All the love you hold inside
Someone will see one day,
Then I’ll watch the words fall off your page
That you‘ve been carried away.

I’ll sit upon that shore again
And watch you carried away.



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8 comments:

  1. This is beautiful poem Barry!
    "Now you stand on higher ground
    In a place where you belong,
    Took some time to find yourself"

    You are very talented and I am honored that I was your inspiration.

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  2. I feel like this was written just for me...

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  3. Deva, as you know this was inspired by your June 20th post. I've always loved your writing; there are many things I see in you,
    and I know someone will be very lucky to discover them. Remember that although this man may not have had that appreciation, there are many of us who do.

    I'm happy to be able to write this as an expression of who you are to me. You have a big heart, and I've always been glad that we met. :)

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  4. That was painfully beautiful. We've all been carried away at some point. Feeling this actually leaves me at a loss for words.

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  5. Beautiful post Barry. I'm so very proud of you.

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  6. Wow, I can completely relate to those first two paragraphs. Crazy.

    Awesomeness Barry. Pure awesomeness.

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  7. Short and sweet? I think so. I totally, absolutely loved this. Simply marvelous.

    xo, Sophia

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  8. "Was he just another shadowed hope
    Or The One dressed in disguise,
    Among the incidents and accidents
    You got tripped up in his lies."

    My favorite part of the poem.
    Very beautiful, Barry. I loved it.

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