December Poem

Lost and Found

This poem is narrated by the same character as the opening poem. This poem is meant to sum up the year and close the calendar. It is written as a lyrics poem in rhyming quatrains with the rhyme scheme ABCB etc. This poem describes the process in which each person in changed by every tiny experience in their life.

Because I wanted the message to stand out as the most prominent part of the poem, the only poetic device used case alliteration.

Think of the things you’ve lost this year

That you never wanted to lose.

Think of the loved ones, the time, the friend,

The things you didn’t choose.

And think of the thing you’ve found this year

That you never knew you would find.

Think of the laughs and the love

And the chances that didn’t pass you by.

Now think of the person that you are today

And think of how far you’ve gone.

You’ve fallen from grace, or found you’re true place,

Or lost the will to go on.

Now tell me you have not changed a whit

Since the last time this day rolled by.

I’ll call your bluff, dismiss this claim

And name it as a lie.

You’ve been changed each of the days you’ve lived

All three-sixty-five this year.

You change when you look, you change when you talk,

When you lose, when you find, when you hear.

You’ve bittered, you’ve brightened, and all in between,

But it’s shaped who you are, no doubt.

The things you’ve lost have helped you to find

The way you were meant to turn out.

And so, you’ve lived another year,

Changing, yet somehow bound.

For the world is tread by those such as you:

Those called The Lost and the Found.  

-          Rachel Harrison