Private Losses

When do you start
to forget the losses
you know
the losses that sustain you,
the losses that hold the bitterness
of the life you may have had
if everything worked out
as hoped

Hope

lost hope
through years of solitude

not bad years

well, maybe one,
when he said
you haven’t laughed in a long time

losses pass
as the sun rises over the divide

Can you name your private losses?

I can
but won’t
for they don’t matter

now.