WHEN SOMETHING’S LOST .
When people feel that something’s lost
then they may often ‘count’ the cost.
This calculation is a tool
to stop them feeling like a fool.
The process can be functional
since it is instructional.
The searching of your heart and soul
can sometimes help you gain control.
Well, certain things felt lost to me
when once had my ostomy
and in my melancholic state
my loss I’d start to calculate.
The first thing in this losing theme
was the loss of self-esteem.
Within my search I would unearth
a loss of self-respect and worth.
Now these were things that meant a lot,
without them life might go to pot.
Imagine how to my dismay
I watched these things just melt away.
My sense of loss was even more
because I felt my wife withdraw.
She used to be so passionate,
affectionate, companionate.
Nothing much was ever said
but such passions now seemed dead.
I grieved a little at this loss
as it embellished my pathos.
Though physically we’re not now close
there seems no need to be morose.
Because of all the things we had
the loss of one thing’s not that bad.
For every other part of life
upholds with me and with my wife.
B. Withers 2013
When people feel that something’s lost
then they may often ‘count’ the cost.
This calculation is a tool
to stop them feeling like a fool.
The process can be functional
since it is instructional.
The searching of your heart and soul
can sometimes help you gain control.
Well, certain things felt lost to me
when once had my ostomy
and in my melancholic state
my loss I’d start to calculate.
The first thing in this losing theme
was the loss of self-esteem.
Within my search I would unearth
a loss of self-respect and worth.
Now these were things that meant a lot,
without them life might go to pot.
Imagine how to my dismay
I watched these things just melt away.
My sense of loss was even more
because I felt my wife withdraw.
She used to be so passionate,
affectionate, companionate.
Nothing much was ever said
but such passions now seemed dead.
I grieved a little at this loss
as it embellished my pathos.
Though physically we’re not now close
there seems no need to be morose.
Because of all the things we had
the loss of one thing’s not that bad.
For every other part of life
upholds with me and with my wife.
B. Withers 2013