Kept Losing

I gave up for a while, kept losing
Losing lung space
Losing heart strings
Losing vision
Vision of what could be, what should be
I got caught up in what oughta be instead of what is
I assumed people come and go for reasons I don't know
But really they just go
Their reasons I'll never know

So I gave up for a while, kept running
Running away from all of that
Running toward more of that
Running into a sea of that
Never finding one tiny piece of that
I got mixed up, tangled between want and need
I figured people would still be there, be here
But really they are no longer waiting
Their hands never idle for long
Like octopus legs, moving always