Lost and not Found

By Mollie Rae Miller

 

There are two

ways to lose something

it can just disappear and be forgotten forever

or it can be misplaced

searched for in vain

A woman digs

In a shelf above her

A picture book

Whispers

To her to visit its magical world once again.

She shuts the creaky door.

A man sorts

Though every pocket

Every drawer

A key lies under a rug

Laughing.

A little girl cries

for her missing mother

who is just breathing in

the next room.

A dog crashes

into the woods

Sniff Sniff Sniff...

to the right a tennis

ball hides in a puddle.

In a sewing room

A long forgotten

blue button

sighs under the dusty cabinet

trying to scout

Its way Home.