This poem is the equivalent of Lost and Alone, but the mood, thoughts, and feelings are completely opposite.

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Found and Belonging

The clouds have dissolved; the wind has died

I've finally succeeded in turning my tide

A bond so special it startles even me

Especially how it came on so suddenly

The darkness is gone; And it nearly blinds me

To know I've got someone, at last, beside me

Suddenly, my hopes are relit

like a fire on wet wood but the flame is so strong

it doesn't take long

for the wood to dry

and the flame burns high!

I've finally found someone whop understands me

When she looks in my eyes I can tell that she sees

More than a window

I'm no longer alone, cursed to be

Lost and longing for an eternity

I've found my path with somewhere to go

I'm no longer a misfit with no control

My worlds is now colorful, with this being

Who will help me spread my growing, filling wings

and fly (higher than ever before!)

Someone who cares, I've found my own somewhere

I'm saved; no longer a window all look through

They really care where I go, what I do!

I have someone to be with, my heart's not breaking

I'm found; not alone; heart no longer aching

They care Not nowhere

No longer alone

My life was rough and I can tell they did see

The aching, and lost, and very alone me

My world's not alone; lost; isolated

From all else

My rain isn't falling, it's ended, it's ceased

I've reached the top of the ladder and now I am free!

The light has stopped fleeing; it's stilled

And released the no longer mentally killed

Me; no longer alone and lost, and in a whole new world

Of happiness

I'm happy, not alone or lost; there's no curse

To keep me confined in it's never-ending murks

Not an eternity of lostness

Someone can guide me, at last; someone can be my map

My life's not an endless journey; I can finally rest and nap

Safely, reviving me

All my old friends, hopes and dreams

May have died with my old world it seems

I was alone, but now I'm OK

I've risen anew above my old ways

I've finally found someone who cares

Who accept that I'm not just there

This rain isn't falling; it's ended, it's stopped

I've reached the final step and now I'm free at the top!

The light has stopped fleeing; it's finally stilled

And released a no longer mentally killed

Me, no longer alone and lost; living in a world of happiness

I don't feel like I'm dying from the inside out

I've dropped my misphancy, though I didn't try

Still they gave me more than a glare and a sigh

So, it's not hopeless anymore

I've been repaired, my hopes resurrected

All my hopes and dreams can now be kept

My loneliness and lostness? All gone in yesterday's wind

I've found that there is a way

left, filled with hope

There's more to me now than endless pain

I've escaped the ocean, the blizzard, my rain!

Now, it's sunny and bright outside

And I've finally turned my tide

I can finally, safely say

That there really, truly, HONESTLY was a day

When a light shined through my pitch-black darkness

And freed me!

I'm not trapped, a prisoner of my own life

I'm not lost and alone; it seems like they've removed the knife

That caused endless pain

There goes the rain

Here's the map to save my day

All I can say

Is

It's no longer hopeless

---------------------------------------Raven's secret-keeper-------------------------------------