hullo there lovelies, this is my entry for Iamdead's poetry contest Impress which y'all should totally check out *.*

can you lose something that you've never had?

is that what this feeling is?

a possibility has been taken away from me,

dangled tantalisingly before my eyes

but it was not meant to be

to have come so close and now find myself even further away is

demoralising at best

what I want is something that I cannot have

what I can have I do not want 

to have longed for something for so long,

to have seen it on the horizon,

to consider it within reach and then to watch as it is washed out to sea

it rankles me

although it is short sighted

and perhaps temporary grief has me blinded

although perhaps this problem is small

right now it is all that I can see