Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks September 2014: The First | Page 16

Lost Words
Dan O’Malley
I’ve done my share of procrastination,
saving myself for initial inspiration,
hoping I won’t lose my intonations
on pads and pods.
And losing my authenticity, on things that
through revelry or are destroyed
through friends’ harmless ribaldry
cause me to loose everything I hold
in a place so deeply seeded in me.
So this one’s for the words I’ve lost,
the sorrow and the feeling
of the failure I have felt
by letting my words down.
So many poems, stories and rhymes,
of memories and future times
I have yet to see but hoped to be
part of which are now never going to be,
at least not as I had seen the perfection
and the rhyming scheme’s alliterations,
soliloquy’s and other words
that mould perfectly.
Writing is amazing,
and helps me to keep from dazing,
focused
aimed so steadily instead of a crooked sight.
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