LETHAL DOSE OF REALITY

Broken Heart Bleeding Heart by Michal Boubin

one day to the next
most would say
she appears normal

few will recognize
she’s been given
a dose of reality

no longer does she live
in a world of hearts
twitterpated

instead,
her heart has been
pierced, broken

it bleeds sadness
and tears, dying
a little more each day

2011-08-03
P. Wanken

written for Three Word Wednesday (appear, dose, pierce) and Poetic Asides prompt to write a “normal” poem

FOUND…AND LOST

I didn’t know I was lost
until the day I realized
I had been found

I didn’t see you coming
one day I looked up
and you were there

I didn’t know I could feel
such fullness of joy
‘til after I met you

I didn’t know true love
until the day
you uttered those words

I didn’t see it coming
one day I looked up
and you weren’t there

I didn’t know pain ‘til now;
I am
lost.

2011-08-01
P. Wanken

Written for Poetic Bloomings prompt:  write a poem about lost, or found, or lost & found.