1 One Was Found Poem by Edith Niemeyer

[Verse 1 — FOUND]

One was found.

One rests within a box—
photographs,
evidence,
fragments of a life
carefully numbered
and quietly shelved.

What happened
to me?

[Verse 2 — UNFOUND]

One was not.

No final place.
No certainty that allows
those left behind
even the smallest comfort
of knowing—

Where are you?

[Pre-Chorus]

Two questions.
Two absences.

Two degrees
of sameness.

One waits inside the box.
One waits beyond it.

Dust gathers upon one.
Years gather upon the other.

[Build]

Yet neither has disappeared.

A name is spoken.
A memory breathes.

A question refuses
to surrender itself
to time.

[Chorus]

Two silenced screams—
traveling different distances,

until somewhere
beyond human sight,

their echoes
become one.

Two silenced screams—
two different distances—

one unanswered echo
becoming one.

[Bridge]

One was found.

One was not.

One asks—

What happened to me?

One asks—

Where are you?

Two questions.
Two absences.

Two degrees
of sameness.

[Final Chorus]

Two silenced screams—
traveling different distances,

until somewhere
beyond human sight,

their echoes
become one.

Become one.

[Outro]

Someone
is still listening.