Eight-line Poems 2

A Song of Lost Marbles

A Song of Lost Marbles

Marbles! I lost mine years ago,
not figuratively but in reality
(flirtation with insanity a thing
of later, teenage years),
and those bright, cold globes
of clear glass shot through with colour,
obsession to some, for others a game,
fed my nascent collective drive.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 12.14.24
Prompt: Lose your/my marbles.