The Greatest Poem Ever Written

The greatest poem ever written was lost The poet, poor dreamer died Unknown and undiscovered No value placed on Sensitive souls Piercing through darkness The hells of our own making Able to find words, give feeling Without logic, full of sense The grim indignities of life and death on this Earth made worthy Why The greatest poem was seldom read Never published, never purchased Never handed down from father to son mother to daughter The greatest poem was simply lost And no one will ever know We had the chance once To find it. ~ Laurence Overmire (Previously published in Write-Away, June 2003)