What Can't Be Found

Keep looking.

We give up the search too soon

and from then on whine, "It can't be found."

We don't even have the grace to particularize it

by saying, more accurately, "I can't find it."

 

We envy those who have found it

and impugn their motives,

their methods,

and even their find,

terming it not the right "it" at all

but some ersatz non-treasure that they have settled for—

unlike us, who continue to maintain

that it can't be found.

 

Don't give up the search, I say.

It's never too late!

From experience I can tell you this:

in the search is the finding.

 

I'd tell you more,

but nothing else needs to be said.

What can't be found

is found in the searching.

Plainer than this I cannot speak.

I can iterate, re-iterate,

stupefy us all with repetition.

Instead I'll stop.

But first I'll tell you one more time:

Don't stop the searching.

What can't be found, you're finding.

 

 

 

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