Found

[Rob]

Found


What I have acquired I will lose

or it will be left behind, regardless

of who I am

even my memories will sneak away

when I am not looking



Won’t you stick around I ask them

I swear they are deaf

I went on alert one day to see if I could tell where they go

I climbed a tall tree where I could see my whole life

sure enough I saw one walking into the woods, so I followed it



It went to a door behind a mountain

I just barely saw the writing across the top of door

It said: “To the next life”

and it went inside and I never saw it again.



I had a dream that night that I was back in that woods

and found the door and opened it.

Way far in the distance I saw my old dog, leaning against

my brother who was smiling beside our Mom and Dad



and just beside them a box that had my name on the top

and on the bottom it said place of all memories.



What we love and lose will be waiting, for us to find, again.