Lost or Never had...?

Lost or Never Had?


The poet and his lost love...
a staple in the shive of ideas to be plucked
like an apple from a barrel when hunger
urges him to write.
Can love be lost? Can something that just ”is” ever be lost?
Isn’t lost just short for something we never had?
Love in the heart endures,. Love in the world comes and goes.
Why, because endings are a reality in the finite world.
We accept that all ends eventually, even us...
Love and loss become synonymous, each a consequence of the other.
Is love lost or just transformed, like water into steam,
experienced briefly, then gone...