Lost Child Poem by Salma Sherif

I Guess that’s it
No more hurt will sink in
I think I have relived
All the pain and every hit
Abandonment.

I Guess that’s why
He left me every time
He made up his mind I’m not the one
With whom he wants to spend his life


Sometimes in life your heart is so broken
you can’t take any more pain.
So you lock it all away
Can’t let it sink. Can’t admit
So when they call you ugly to your face
You still hold onto them with unfailing faith

All the while I thought this time
I won’t be left behind
But since you walked away
I have been feeling like a lost child
Living in exile
Can’t find my way home.
Facing the world alone
Unforgiven, uninvited, disowned

People could be so cruel
I’m feeling like I have got no back bone
While everyone is so strong and full
Emptiness is all I have known
I want someone to hold my hand
And not let go


For a moment there, he sheltered me
Felt like he could take care of me
Like he did, Paternally


Root less, I feel
Thought you and I could make a tree
Thought you were the answer to my prayer
Yes, I did

Can’t you see how I feel when I see?
you’d forgotten me?
Can’t you see how I feel?
When you never choose me


God help me I can’t breathe
From all the loneliness
Its choking me
I’m writhing in tears


He will always remember that day
Why he decided to walk away
Now when he chooses to go with another girl
He will not regret leaving me all alone no no

Can’t you see how I feel when I see?
I don’t mean anything anymore to him.