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Approaching Lost

by George Hoerner

I'd been heading
toward lost
my whole life
and it was
a patchwork
of wrong turns
rapidly approaching

lost seems
a destination
with a view
as good as many
and the distance
shrinks with time
yet enough left
to lose my way

after all
how many
wrong turns
can you make
in one life

12/13/2008

Posted on 12/03/2008
Copyright © 2026 George Hoerner

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 12/04/08 at 03:17 AM

Yeah, I've been there, too. That last stanza most of all.

Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 12/07/08 at 02:26 PM

this poem is reminiscent of the good shepherd which goes searching for the we lambs who are lost, and admitting we are lost is the beginning of finding our way back, to where ever that back was, which is not necessarily in the fold.

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