What Is Loss? Poem by Hani Al Lawati

What is loss?
It's not when you capsize while sailing your boat,
But when you eavesdrop on your gut feelings that radiate a voice full of despair!

What is loss?
It's not when you collapse after you imperialize,
But when you realize that every step you took towards the summit left you alone!

What is loss?
It's not when you have been betrayed by the members of your life,
But when they turn out avaricious investors who penetrated into your life, enriching it with filth, greed, possessivity and narcissism!

We may acknowledge certain situations to be a loss for us, but never realize the consequential ones beneath them.