Forgotten More Than You’ll Ever Know

And you were a bee and had
Bee ability to see
In wavelengths humans can’t,

Or were a human gifted
With an extra, insect sense,
But then lost it, gradually.

What a disability,
To have once seen more than, sensed
More than others ever see,

Then the slow descent to them,
Who could never understand
What it was you’d had and sensed.

Those that never had the sense,
Never knew someone who did,
Could never be handicapped.

Only when you know you can’t,
Or can’t any longer, sense
What you might have, what you could,

Is your loss real as your loss,
In your sense of an absence.
Memory’s cost’s too immense.