LOST SOMEWHERE

LOST SOMEWHERE

Just sit back and try to relax

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I look at the faces around me,

And listen to the stories they tell.

Lunch with the ladies is monthly,

You’d think we’d know each other well.

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You wonder where their sources come from

For the many tales that they weave,

Some of them so far outrageous,

They’re truly too hard to believe.

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A few share the same set of problems,

But there’s always one whose are much worse.

I try to sit here objectively

And put what I hear into verse.

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A phone rings. It’s somebody’s husband.

It’s then that the whispering starts.

Makes you wonder if what’s on the surface

It’s what’s hidden deep in their hearts.

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Everyone here’s in agreement,

That we all have been “there” before.

But there are some who will tell you too quickly,

That what they’d had was so much more.

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Enough of this game that we’re playing!

I’d just like to sit here and coast!

Take time to reflect on my family

For they are what matters most.

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The others, like me are just faces,

Trying to get by on our pride –

Lost somewhere in todays’ shuffle,

Of the grind of the day’s hectic ride.