TITLE: What I have lost AUTHOR: Bio CATEGORY: Reflective DATE SUBMITTED: 3/28/2008	RATING: 4.00
What have I lost   I have lost all my children, They have become adults and for the life of me I can’t tell the difference but they insist there is one   I have lost most of my hair Which seems to be a fairly common event to old men What I can’t understand is why I care when I am an old man   I have lost my youth But gained wisdom and experience, And have gotten old enough that I want to trade back   I have lost some reality And now believe I have some invisible imp That moves my pen and hides my shoes and leads me into rooms for no reason   I have lost the ability to tell the difference between democrats and republicans I also have lost the reason why it was ever important after Bill and Florida   I have lost the importance For what is the latest and fastest is also the greatest No one seems to care about what happen to that which was replaced   I have lost the ability to care If I can make the people in my life happy, I now believe that if I’m happy it can’t be that bad for them.   I have lost people to death, and places to change and now wish they could be more than a memory And the true sadness is I never knew how important they were till they was gone   I have lost my ability to ignore my third eye that sees the wicked world for what it is And for those that can carry on with out such sight, they are the truly blessed
Response From: Autumn Pixies on 2008-12-11 14:33:31 It's very touching and a lot of meaning behind it. There is a lot of eomtion within it also. It did take me somewhere, and for a while I was looking for a more of a style to your writing; if there was any enternal ryhme I was missing, and I'm still not for sure if I did miss something other than the similiraties in the topic of the lines. But I did enjoy this poem a lot.