Lost My Voice

I lost my voice

I searched the world

I saw how dreams are made

I earned some money, found my niche

It wasn’t a fair trade

My faith was just a bit too strong

To truly be secure

I had to lose it too, a while

To find it here and there

I had to lose my job, my mind,

My will to make it through

I had to lose my one true love

Before I could find you

There was so much I had to lose

To find out who I am—

I’m all the things you cannot touch

You’re all the things I can

But when you touch me, I forget

The calculated cost

And touch itself becomes the thing

That shares what we have lost

I search now out of habit

I search from sea to sea

For nothing in particular

And sing myself to sleep

I'm such a fool for searching

There isn’t much to see

I found what I was looking for

The day that you found me

© Simon Orpana 2020