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Lost Not found (response to a quote from V.E Schwab)


“Be lost, give up, give in. In the end it would be better to surrender before you begin, be lost, be lost, be lost and then you will not care if you are found,” - V. E. Schwab; Vicious 

 


 

 I 

“Be lost, give up, give in….” 

I am lost 

A ghost girl in a big world 

A spirit tossed 

A spirit obscured  

It is easy to hide when no one wants to see 

The suffering; the lost soul never heard swimming in the sea of her mind 

I am lost at sea  

My legs grow week my arms shake 

Oblivion seems so close but so far away

 

II 

I swim and swim and swim 

Lost at sea knowing no one is coming 

No one knows i am gone 

No one knows to look for my struggles 

I hide so completely that like a ghost 

No one sees me hide everything completely 

As in my mind 

I swim and swim and swim 

my arms ache and my legs weep 

 

III 

“...In the end it would be better to surrender before you begin…” 

No one is coming 

No one is coming 

No one is coming 

Sink or swim 

Sink 

Or Swim 



 

IV 

When you cant see the shore 

When in an endless sea 

When no one is coming 

Step up decide surrender or 

SURVIVE 

 

V 

 “...be lost, be lost, be lost and then you will not care if you are found,”

I am lost at sea 

No way to be found 

I swim no shore to see 

An endless sea 

But i do not stop kicking i do not stop 

S

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     I 

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N

G 

 

VI 

I may never find the shore 

I may always be lost 

But i will never know if i surrender 

I keep my head above the water 

despite the cost 

I do not need to be found 

No one can find me but i can find 

The shore 

I can survive 

 
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