Missing
Kenneth Day 1964 (Concord NC)
Missing
I’ve missed the one thing that I am missing.
I love hugs and attention and kissing.
But I can’t figure out the one thing that I am missing,
In a world where somebody somewhere has all the answers.
I can’t find the answer to the question what I am missing,
I hope everybody have Family, and friends, and the person you love more than anything.
But why am I still missing?
We sometimes reach for things that you cannot have.
Sometime times you get things you don’t need to have.
When I tried to find the things, I missed
I ended up missing those things I cannot find.
I can’t see the thing I want or need.
I don’t know what I want.
Maybe the thing I missed is the thing I am missing.
About this poem
Searching but not Finding
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Written on December 26, 2023
Submitted by kdae on December 26, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 702 |
| Words | 147 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 15 |
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