Lost

When did you get lost on the road?

It would have been when you fell for the first time

or in the first disappointment.

In a moment you were a new hope in a twisted world

and in another, we lost you in a sea of shadows

your steps were shortened

and your words were frightened,

in an instant when we blinked you escaped us

and we do not understand where we lost you

what time do we let you get lost

and shrink

I stay awake at night, with my hand in my heart

with doubts on the lips

and the echoes of your footsteps in the wounds of my soul

and even, in years away and oceans of torment, I wonder

At what moment did we miss you?

T.M.