(Late Night) Letter to the Lost of Heart

Letter to the lost of heart

Dear heart you are lost

You have lost your faith and hope and ways by which to replace

that missing faith and hope

You have lost your belief system

You have lost that which you pinned your modest dreams on

and lost your ambition

You have lost that which you would claim for yourself

You have given yourself away to the wind

and to the birds

You have torn strips out of your skin and given them out like mealworms

You have placed and misplaced the blood

You have offered yourself whole

to a word

You have traded yourself entirely for a word in an ear

You have spoken of love

and lost

You have reached for the edges of things with your sensitive fingers

and lost again

You have lost your grip

You have aimed for the centre of the heart of a girl

on more than one occasion

held out for a woman

You have taken your time and drawn a bead on that which is worth waiting for

and you have missed

You have lost your coat and your hat to the needs of strangers

You have lost your house

You have lost your friends or what friends you had

You have lost your family

Dear heart it is not unfair to say there is very little you haven't lost

but you may not lose heart

any more than the sun can lose its shine

so long as you beat

Dear heart so long as you hurt

Dear heart you're mine