“Seeking”

poetry

(For Dwayne Dickerson, for sparking a momentary reflection on the self)

You, searching in far off lands for a
change to familiarity.
You searched in hopes for something
refreshing, different.
Then when the journey for difference
consumed, while sifting through the
hallowed sands of pursuits
unexplored you learned it; the truly
foreign and exotic is that
most familiar thing, perhaps the self.

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Originally published in The Dedicadas: A Chapbook

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