What You Lost
Have you ever sat down alone on your old home’s floor
Gazing reminiscently into the empty walls around
Wishing the past would walk in right through the door
And this deafening silence would fill with love and sound
Have you ever dusted away those old squeaky toys
Whose funny noises once echoed through your home
Rediscover the almirahs where you hid with other boys
Walk again in the flowery gardens you once used to roam
Have you ever flipped through the thumbed pages of the book
Within which you hid the roses she gave one valentine
Rustled through the worn out photos of her that you took
In the days when all you had was love without a penny or a dime
And today when you stand all alone in this emptiness
Shoulders weighed down by all the glories you have earned
You realise all along you were just chasing an illusion of happiness
It was that lost childhood for which your heart always yearned