Things Missing Somewhere in This House

My birth bertificate…
A box of needed, new bank checks…
Both our wedding rings…
My Waterman fountain pen…
After 4 decades, at least 3 dozen
   of Jim’s odd socks & 2 dozen of mine…
2 Roku remotes, 1 somewhere
   upstairs & 1 here downstairs…
(Worrying) The hand-written letters I received
   from Thornton Wilder & Samuel Beckett…
My nonchalance about tornadoes after last month
   when Jim’s sis-in-law’s home
   was destroyed in Laurel County…
(Most   tragically) Half of our hearts —
   after our 2 sons (brothers whom we adopted
   when they were aged 2 & 4)…And
   so completely adored by us for 14 years,
   but who were
then,
one horrid day, driven off
   by their birth-mother (in her suddenly
   arrived car)…Back to SC where
   they were born…And since that day when
  they left, they’ve not contacted us…
20 years of our youthful daydreams…
(Woefully) The bottom half of my right leg,
   which somehow returned here with me
   from the hospital after the surgeon took it
   17 months ago, & which with
   painful phantom screams,
keeps pleading
   to be re-joined…
(& Thankfully) My distance away from Jesus…