The Lost Key



I lost the key once again,
The key to my space, of life and lust.
The key, that I always keep myself with;
Today  i fear, i lost it forever.

Can't imagine how she will react;
the mate i share my space with,
Voice and cries will shower my ears;
as it had ,the times before,
Or her dewy silence will mince my tender feelings,
For god sake, that never happened before.

We sought the lock and keys on a sunny day,
Beneath the shades of a PaPal tree;
The day that i will never forget,
Though it seems long gone by now.

We named the lock, the hope;
Guardian to my space
Keyed with faith and belief;
Hope holds my space alive.

Faith and belief my wings; of just and desire,
They float me across the valleys; of calm and peace.
Had lost the faith, many times before;
Regained from here or there
Coz she had belief; faith, found inside my space.

The lost and found game was on;
Can’t complain my possessiveness,
Yet the space stood opened for me;
Coz the belief, she always had.

Today belief no longer with her,
Am deserted with a key in my palm,
I found my space shut and myself lost;
Still can’t complain the possessiveness.

I fear, i lost the key forever; now i know
Why they call hope, a magical lock.

About this poem

When i was studying in a my college , I met with my soulmate , i wished the campus had a a papal tree like this in the poem. . After a decade i went back there and later wrote it down when my sweet heart was still sleeping beside me. The fears of a ten years younger me are portrayed here .All i see in him is love , care and naïve.

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Written on October 09, 2021

Submitted by chengaloor_g on October 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXAB XAXCXC XDXX XEXX BXCXE XFDX BXXF XX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,209
Words 266
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 6, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 2

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I am a civil engineer working in Kerala, India. I am happily married to my college sweetheart and we have a beautiful daugher Meenakshi . I like to read and write and exploring nature around me apart from spending time with my family. more…

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