Lost & Found

Attention please.

A silver key,

a red scarf,

one photograph,

and a small blue suitcase are waiting at Lost and Found.

Someone left a jacket on the last train home

Someone left a paperback with a name I don’t know

A ticket from November

a ring inside a coat

All the little evidence of somewhere people go

Every object has a story every story missed a train Somebody will

come looking somebody never came

Lost and found

lost and found Everything we leave behind

keeps waiting to be found A photograph

a hotel key a letter folded twice

Lost and found

lost and found

Some things lose their owner some things keep a life

Red scarf. Platform six.

Black umbrella.

One photograph.

No name. There’s a glove

without its partner

and a watch that stopped at three

A child’s green plastic dinosaur

beneath receipt number seventeen

A postcard never written a charger,

size unknown And one old pair of headphones still playing something low

Every object has a story

but no one tells it right

Sometimes what we lose

keeps more of us than we like

Lost and found

lost and found

Everything we leave behind

keeps waiting to be found A photograph

a hotel key a letter folded twice

Lost and found

lost and found

Some things lose their owner

some things keep a life

The red scarf is mine.

Not the photograph. Did you find my dinosaur?

I lost a key.

What does it open?

I don’t know anymore.

And the photograph?

Keep it. Lost and found

lost and found Somebody comes back for everything

or almost everything

A scarf

a key

a little green dinosaur

Lost and found

lost and found Maybe losing something is how we know what mattered

more

The Lost and Found office

is now closing. Please collect your belongings.

Or don’t.